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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK76FVD38

1976-06-06 SANTA ROSA, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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 · N1711P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Airport

SANTA ROSA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

PARTIAL OBSCURATION

Temp

58° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000022-2501

Total time

3,922 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,000

Age

57

Cause factors

  • 64/C/32 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
  • 88/C/96 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
  • 83/K/F K
    TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 1569. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1569.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.