SEA69F0197
1969-02-21 · BEAVERTON, Oregon, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed
Aircraft involved
Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)
- Aircraft
- CESSNA 120 · N2551N
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Craft type
- Airplane
- Classification
- Accident
- Light condition
- Dawn
- Weather
- VMC
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff — initial climb (C1)
- Operator type
- D
- Airport
- BERNARD
- Kind of flying
- A3
Weather at impact
- Sky
- CLEAR
Aircraft history
- Total time
- 2,048 hrs
Pilot
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Total hours
- 35
- Age
- 28
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
L IN R TANK. 3 1/2 GALS IN L TANK.
Investigator remarks
FUEL SELECTOR ON R TANK. APRXLY 5 1/2 QTS OF FUE
Cause factors
- 88/C/96 C MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
- 64/C/20 C PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause
Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).
Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket
3 0524.
Source file
NTSB_1969_3_0524.txt.
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