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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK66D0080

1965-07-14 KNEELAND, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8631A

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING 737-8H4

Year of manufacture

2014

TCDS

A16WE · THE BOEING CO

Engine

CFM INTL CFM56-7B27E

Seats / Engines

143 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20140521

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABDC78

Registrant of record

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8631A BEECHCRAFT A-35 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

BEECHCRAFT A-35 · N8631A

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

KNEELAND

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

260° / 5 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Total time

4,104 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

715

Age

48

Investigator remarks

NIGHT OPERATION ON UNLIGHTED AIRPORT

Cause factors

88/C/13 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS NOT ALIGNED WITH RUNWAY/INTENDED LANDING AREA 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 2526. Source file NTSB_1965_3_2526.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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