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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK66F0063

1965-08-19 MADERA, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7409B Champion 7EC Minor

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

CHAMPION 7EC · N7409B

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise climb (DB)

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

135° / 5 kt

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Total time

2,314 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

275

Age

30

Cause factors

88/A/72 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ICE-CARBURETOR Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/C/02 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ANTI-ICING/DEICING EQUIPMENT-IMPROPER OPERATION OF/OR FAILED TO USE 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 2372. Source file NTSB_1965_3_2372.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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