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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK69F0207

1968-12-13 YUBA CITY, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N52023

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA AIRCRAFT CO 162

Year of manufacture

2010

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-200 (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20101014

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A68BA8

Registrant of record

M&L FLIGHT INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N52023 Boeing E75 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

BOEING E75 · N52023

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DK

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

SUTTER COUNTY

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

5,743 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,840

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

HRS SOH. LANDED IN ORCHARD.

Investigator remarks

FLY WEIGHT CAME LOOSE,DESTROYING LINK RODS. 900

Cause factors

74/C/AB C
POWERPLANT CRANKSHAFT Cause
88/C/29 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY SECURED Cause
68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
83/K/A K
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND 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 4307. Source file NTSB_1968_3_4307.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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