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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA81FYK16

1981-08-21 ROSEBURG, Oregon, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4821J Beech 95-C55 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

BEECH 95-C55 · N4821J

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

ROSEBURG MUNI

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 4 kt

Temp

90° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000TE-251

Total time

2,076 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,084

Age

59

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

MISC-FUEL STARVATION FOR UNKNOWN REASON

Investigator remarks

MAINS PRT FULL,AUX NR EMPTY.MVD SEL OFF AFT CRSH

Cause factors

84/C/J C
MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
74/L/J2 L
POWERPLANT FUEL QUANTITY GAUGE
88/L/BR L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ERRATIC
88/L/48 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FAILURE OF TWO OR MORE ENGINES
84/K/7 K
MISCELLANEOUS EVASIVE MANEUVER TO AVOID COLLISION 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 2685. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2685.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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