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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK67F0130

1966-08-21 VERNALIS, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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

WEATHERLY C63 · N58541

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DK

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

340° / 7 kt

Temp

67° F

Aircraft history

Total time

923 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,113

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

F FLT.PLTS RESPIRATOR FILTER CHANGE 35 HRS OVERDUE

Investigator remarks

ACFT STRUCK WATER STANDPIPE. PLT HAS NO MEMORY O

Cause factors

  • 64/A/52 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE AND CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/1/65 1
    PILOT IN COMMAND PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENT Subordinate · 1

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 0665. Source file NTSB_1966_2_0665.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.