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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK74FVA34

1973-11-18 LOS BANOS, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4936V Bellanca 17-30 Minor

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

BELLANCA 17-30 · N4936V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

LOS BANOS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0030144-1730

Total time

639 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

185

Age

48

Investigator remarks

HIT WIRES.FUEL SELECTOR FOUND ON EMPTY TANK.

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
64/B/15 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor

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 3821. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3821.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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