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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK70D0022

1969-06-16 MADERA, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3987S Cessna 172E 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

CESSNA 172E · N3987S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise climb (DB)

Operator type

D

Airport

MADERA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,815 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,038

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CIENTLY ON CLIMB OUT TO CONTINUE FLT FROM LOW ALT.

Investigator remarks

PRACTICE FORCED LDG,ENGINE DID NOT RESPOND SUFFI

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
88/C/34 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ENGINE LOADED UP Cause
88/J/85 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS Joint cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 1667. Source file NTSB_1969_3_1667.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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