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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK69F0090

1968-08-01 UKIAH, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9515R

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA A185F

Year of manufacture

1976

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19761126

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD3B75

Registrant of record

CUNNINGHAM MICHAEL K

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9515R Beech K35 Serious

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 K35 · N9515R

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

UKIAH

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

990 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

375

Age

29

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/87 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WATER IN FUEL 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 2595. Source file NTSB_1968_3_2595.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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