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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK67D0041

1966-07-14 YUBA CITY, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9571S

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CHAMPION 7ECA

Year of manufacture

1965 · 1 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-200 SERIES (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19650904

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD5134

Registrant of record

SHETTERLY MAXINE M

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9571S Champion 7EC 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

CHAMPION 7EC · N9571S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

SUTTER COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

650

Age

26

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ANDING.PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE WITH TRICYCLE GEAR ONLY

Investigator remarks

AFTER 50 MINUTES DUAL,ACCIDENT OCCURRED ON 1ST L

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
68/C/C1 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE TRAINING OF STUDENT Cause
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 1755. Source file NTSB_1966_3_1755.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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