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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK65F0078

1965-04-11 YUBA CITY, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N68914 Piper J3C 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

PIPER J3C · N68914

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

SUTTER COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

2,215 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

IA (IA)

Total hours

1,000

Age

34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ILOT IN FAA RECORDS.

Investigator remarks

FLIGHT TIME AS REPORTED BY PILOT, NO RECORD OF P

Cause factors

84/C/8 C
MISCELLANEOUS UNQUALIFIED PERSON OPERATED AIRCRAFT 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 2 0248. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0248.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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