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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK69D0268

1969-04-08 TULARE, 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 310 · N2661C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

GALLAHER

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

2,862 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

26,000

Age

51

Investigator remarks

CABIN DOOR OPENED AFTER T/O.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/10 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO EXTEND LANDING GEAR Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/J/29 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Joint cause
  • 88/J/03 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CHECKLIST-FAILED TO USE 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 0677. Source file NTSB_1969_3_0677.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.