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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK66D0175

1966-01-13 OAKLAND, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1597Z BEECHCRAFT B55 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 B55 · N1597Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

D

Airport

OAKLAND

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

315° / 5 kt

Temp

53° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,362 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

4,800

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FF TAXIWAY

Investigator remarks

NIGHT OPERATION. COLLIDED WITH PIECE OF TIMBER O

Cause factors

64/C/35 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
80/L/BJ L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES HIDDEN HAZARD
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 0025. Source file NTSB_1966_3_0025.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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