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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA69F0257

1969-04-07 AURORA, Oregon, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1192V

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH D17S

Year of manufacture

1945 · 24 years old at event

Engine

P&W R-985 SERIES (450 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19550930

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A05054

Registrant of record

SCHMIDT VICTOR M

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1192V Beech D17S Minor

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 D17S · N1192V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

D

Airport

AURORA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,195 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

307

Age

48

Investigator remarks

FUSELAGE TANK EMPTY, L WING TANK FULL.

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause

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 1521. Source file NTSB_1969_3_1521.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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