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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK70DVD11

1970-03-11 TRACY, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N62J

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

VELOCITY VELOCITY XL RG

Year of manufacture

2005

Engine

LYCOMING IO-540 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20050620

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A814AC

Registrant of record

BELIVEAU JOE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N62J Howard DGA-15 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

HOWARD DGA-15 · N62J

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

TRACY

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001751

Total time

2,758 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,393

Age

53

Investigator remarks

SEAT SLID BACK.

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
70/C/BI C
AIRFRAME SEATS Cause
88/C/29 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY SECURED 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 1168. Source file NTSB_1970_3_1168.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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