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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK69D0279

1969-03-29 CLARKSBURG, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9443K

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

UNIVERSAL STINSON 108-2

Year of manufacture

1947 · 22 years old at event

Engine

FRANKLIN 6A4165 SERIES (165 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD1ECF

Registrant of record

HULTBERG MICHAEL T

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9443K Stinson 108-2 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

STINSON 108-2 · N9443K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

CLARKSBURG

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

210° / 14 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

1,276 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

167

Age

47

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
64/C/80 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND Cause
82/C/H C
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 0950. Source file NTSB_1969_3_0950.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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