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SEA77DYE22

1977-04-29 · PORT ANGELES, Washington, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
STEARMAN A75N1 · N5728N
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Night
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
DD

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR
Wind
080° / 3 kt
Temp
60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number
0000075-2606
Total time
5,375 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Flight instructor (CFI)
Total hours
2,000
Age
32

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

L TO CAPACITY. FUEL GAGE ERROR.

Investigator remarks

PILOT WAS NOT AWARE TAIL HAD TO BE RAISED TO FUE

Cause factors

  • 64/C/29 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
  • 64/C/32 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
  • 88/C/63 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
  • 74/L/J2 L
    POWERPLANT FUEL QUANTITY GAUGE
  • 88/L/BR L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ERRATIC
  • 83/K/I K
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 1389. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1389.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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