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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK69D0214

1968-11-27 UKIAH, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1610P Piper PA-22 None

Historical record (pre-1982)

NTSB recorded this accident in the pre-1982 coded-field schema — structured fields rather than free-text narrative. Decoded codes use established NTSB single-letter taxonomies; cause factors remain verbatim pending the Form 6120.4 codebook lookup.

Aircraft

PIPER PA-22 · N1610P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

UKIAH

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,097 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

199

Age

39

Investigator remarks

LEFT FUEL TANK EMPTY,5 GALS FUEL IN RT TANK.

Cause factors

88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 4410. Source file NTSB_1968_3_4410.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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