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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK68F0349

1968-04-07 COALINGA, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2559E

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

HYLIO INC AG 230

0

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A26DA9

Registrant of record

UPWARD AG SYSTEMS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2559E Aeronca 7AC 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

AERONCA 7AC · N2559E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

H

Airport

COALINGA

Kind of flying

DF

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,195 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

62

Age

29

Investigator remarks

CONCENTRATING ON SPOT LNDG.DAMAGED FUSELAGE.

Cause factors

64/A/25 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/J/08 J
PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT 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 3 0877. Source file NTSB_1968_3_0877.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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