Event SEA69F0206

1969-02-28 MEDFORD, Oregon, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4812V Boeing E75 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

BOEING E75 · N4812V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DJ

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Total time

3,129 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,700

Age

26

Investigator remarks

FUEL TANK CAP MISSING.

Cause factors

88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
74/L/CJ L
POWERPLANT VENTS,DRAINS,TANK CAPS
88/L/90 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MISSING

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 0462. Source file NTSB_1969_3_0462.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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