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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK71DVD01

1970-07-30 SONOMA, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N95450

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-140

Year of manufacture

1969 · 1 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19690527

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD46A3

Registrant of record

PIPER AIRE LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N95450 Piper PA-28 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-28 · N95450

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

L

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000028-25963

Total time

1,183 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

31

Age

53

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SEL L TANK.R TANK 14GALS.HIT BRBQUE PIT,PASTURE.

Investigator remarks

RAN L TANK DRY.PLT STATED HE SWITCHED TANKS.FUEL

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/B/Y B
TERRAIN OTHER

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 3251. Source file NTSB_1970_3_3251.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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