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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK69D0290

1969-05-04 CHICO, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N793D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH C35

Year of manufacture

1952 · 17 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR E225 SERIES (225 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560317

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AAC375

Registrant of record

VON MENCHHOFEN ZACHERY

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N793D Beech C35 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

BEECH C35 · N793D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

RANCHERO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 12 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

3,350 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

250

Age

47

Cause factors

82/C/N C
WEATHER LOCAL WHIRLWIND 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 1167. Source file NTSB_1969_3_1167.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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