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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK65F0065

1965-03-14 STOCKTON, California, United States None 2 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9426Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH N35

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19601209

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD17D7

Registrant of record

MY PILOT LTD

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

WATSON W8L · N7W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

TULARE AIRPARK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 10 kt

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Total time

177 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

530

Age

26

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AILERON CONTROL, PARTIAL ELEVATOR CONTROL AVAILBL

Investigator remarks

AILERON & ELEVATOR CONTROL YOKE PULLED LOOSE, NO

Cause factors

75/C/CA C
SYSTEMS AILERON AND AILERON TAB CONTROL SYSTEM Cause
75/C/CC C
SYSTEMS ELEVATOR AND ELEVATOR TAB CONTROL SYSTEM Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
68/C/J2 C
PERSONNEL POOR/INADEQUATE DESIGN 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 1101. Source file NTSB_1965_3_1101.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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