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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK67A0018

1966-08-06 MADERA, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6355X Bell Tomcat 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

BELL TOMCAT · N6355X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C2

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

303 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,000

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LER.FIRST FLIGHT AFTER T/R CABLES WERE CHANGED.

Investigator remarks

ACCIDENT OCCURRED ON TAKEOFF FROM TRANSPORT TRAI

Cause factors

68/A/D6 A
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause — pilot/personnel action
78/A/C2 A
ROTORCRAFT TAIL ROTOR PITCH CONTROL SYSTEM Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/BK A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CROSSED Cause — pilot/personnel action
68/J/E4 J
PERSONNEL FAILURE TO PROVIDE ADEQ.DIRECTIVES,MANUAL,EQUIPMENT Joint 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 0710. Source file NTSB_1966_2_0710.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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