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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK67A0015

1966-07-30 CORCORAN, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N49286

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING A75N1(PT17)

Year of manufacture

1940 · 26 years old at event

Engine

P&W R-985 SERIES (450 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19760517

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A61B15

Registrant of record

SCHOENAU MICHAEL

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N49286 Boeing A75N Fatal

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

BOEING A75N\ · N49286

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

E

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DK

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

69° F

Aircraft history

Total time

5,085 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,121

Age

26

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

D POSIT. DISORIENTATION IN 3RD PROCEDURE TURNARND.

Investigator remarks

PLT-10 NITE HRS.,0 NITE CROP CONTROL. EXPERIENCE

Cause factors

64/A/02 A
PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION BEYOND EXPERIENCE/ABILITY LEVEL Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 0658. Source file NTSB_1966_2_0658.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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