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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK67D0188

1967-01-01 WATSONVILLE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2351H Ercoupe 415-C 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

ERCOUPE 415-C · N2351H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

WATSONVILLE MUN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Total time

2,032 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

181

Age

37

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

T TO PILOTS HOME.ACCIDENT OCCURRED ON 1ST LANDING.

Investigator remarks

LANDED ON ROUGH/UNEVEN FIELD 650 FT LONG ADJACEN

Cause factors

64/C/35 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN 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 0005. Source file NTSB_1967_3_0005.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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