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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK68D0290

1967-12-10 MONTEREY, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N93359 ERCO 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

ERCO 415-C · N93359

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

MONTEREY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

340° / 4 kt

Temp

55° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,003 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

295

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

000 FT WAS AVAILABLE FOR USE AND WAS LIGHTED.

Investigator remarks

STRUCK METAL STAKES ON RNWY UNDER CONSTRUCTION.4

Cause factors

64/A/15 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/AS A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LANDED IN CONSTRUCTION AREA Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 4685. Source file NTSB_1967_3_4685.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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