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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK68D0324

1968-03-09 COALINGA, California, United States None 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

CESSNA 182 · N3184F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

COALINGA

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

590 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

275

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OF ALIGNMENT.

Investigator remarks

FUSELAGE SKIN WRINKLED AND ENGINE MOUNT BENT OUT

Cause factors

  • 64/A/62 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING 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 0482. Source file NTSB_1968_3_0482.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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