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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK67A0073

1967-04-04 FRESNO, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6898S AERO CMDR 680 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

AERO CMDR 680 · N6898S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

E

Airport

FRESNO AIR TERMNL

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Total time

2,751 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

11,700

Age

49

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PWR PLT-INFLIGHT FUEL FED FIRE IN RT WHEEL WELL.

Investigator remarks

ORIGIN OF FUEL SYSTEM FAILURE NOT DETERMINED.

Cause factors

84/C/J C
MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE Cause
74/C/CY C
POWERPLANT OTHER Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
70/B/CA B
AIRFRAME MAIN GEAR-SHOCK ABSORBING ASSY,STRUTS,ATTACHMENTS,ETC.
88/B/BF B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS BURNED

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 4768. Source file NTSB_1967_3_4768.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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