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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK73DVM31

1973-05-05 WATSONVILLE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N30364

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA AIRCRAFT CO 162

Year of manufacture

2011

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-200 (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20110801

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A32DBE

Registrant of record

N30364 LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N30364 Cessna 177A 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

CESSNA 177A · N30364

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

360° / 15 kt

Temp

61° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017001211

Total time

790 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

844

Age

45

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

IN HAY FLD,NOSE GR HIT RUTS.

Investigator remarks

FUEL GAUGES INOP. PLT DIDNT REFUEL ENROUTE. LND

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
74/L/J2 L
POWERPLANT FUEL QUANTITY GAUGE
88/L/BR L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ERRATIC

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 1005. Source file NTSB_1973_3_1005.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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