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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK68D0088

1967-07-17 COALINGA, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9711Z

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA U206G

Year of manufacture

1982

TCDS

A4CE · CESSNA

Engine

ROLLS-ROYC 250-C20S (420 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19820319

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD89EF

Registrant of record

T SKYE LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9711Z Grumman TBM-3 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

GRUMMAN TBM-3 · N9711Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

Z

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CC

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

270° / 20 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

1,680 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

9,900

Age

43

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OKY FROM FOREST FIRE. FLT CONTINUED, SAFE LNDG.

Investigator remarks

STRUCK TREE ON PULL UP FROM FIRE BOMBING RUN. SM

Cause factors

64/A/54 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/V J
WEATHER OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION 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 0535. Source file NTSB_1967_2_0535.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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