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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK75DVA46

1975-03-01 LOS BANOS, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2198W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

FIREFLY BALLOONS INC FIREFLY 8B-15

Year of manufacture

2003

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20040506

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1DE76

Registrant of record

WOLNIAK BRUCE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2198W Beech B19 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

BEECH B19 · N2198W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

D

Airport

LOS BANOS

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

250° / 12 kt

Temp

55° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000MB-701

Total time

505 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

81

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TY,R TANK HAD 20 GAL.

Investigator remarks

PLT OVERSHOT APCH,ENG QUIT ON GO ARND.L TANK EMP

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/19 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INATTENTIVE TO FUEL SUPPLY Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/B/A B
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND
64/L/46 L
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED

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 0293. Source file NTSB_1975_3_0293.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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