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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK79DVG38

1979-05-14 NAPA, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6505C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

LANCAIR LC-40-550FG

Year of manufacture

2003

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-550 SERIES (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20030404

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A88FC4

Registrant of record

LANCAIR LEASING LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6505C 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 · N6505C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

NAPA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

028-78-90378

Total time

256 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

188

Age

22

Cause factors

64/C/27 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS 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/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 1299. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1299.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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