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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK77X0103

1977-03-15 SAN FERNANDO, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6196L

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GREAT LAKES 2T-1A-2

Year of manufacture

1976 · 1 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19760115

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A81362

Registrant of record

FIALA FREDERICK P

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6196L Great Lakes 2T-1A2 Serious

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

GREAT LAKES 2T-1A2 · N6196L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

SAN FERNANDO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

190° / 5 kt

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000723

Total time

372 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

293

Age

27

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
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 0454. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0454.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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