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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK70D0019

1969-05-10 PASO ROBLES, 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 182 · N1807X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

SHERWOOD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

653 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

87

Age

37

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SS. X MARKER NOT VISIBLE.

Investigator remarks

ABANDONED ARPT OVERGROWN WITH WEEDS AND TALL GRA

Cause factors

  • 64/A/03 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND BECAME LOST/DISORIENTED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/17 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LANDED AT WRONG AIRPORT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/AP A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RUNWAY CLOSED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 80/A/BI A
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES HIGH VEGETATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 80/A/BJ A
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES HIDDEN HAZARD Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 1687. Source file NTSB_1969_3_1687.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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