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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK65F0007

1965-02-20 MADERA, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N26910

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING 787-8

Year of manufacture

2014

Engine

GE GENX-1B70/P2

Seats / Engines

260 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20140317

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2A300

Registrant of record

UNITED AIRLINES INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N26910 Piper J4 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

PIPER J4 · N26910

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

SALABERRY

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

3,400 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

43

Age

53

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS 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 0297. Source file NTSB_1965_3_0297.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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