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OAK70DVD11

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

N62J has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (VELOCITY VELOCITY XL RG, built 2005), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

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).

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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