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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK70DVW23

1970-06-24 BISHOP, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7623 Schweizer 1-34 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

SCHWEIZER 1-34 · N7623

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 10 kt

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000003

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

200

Age

33

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

G HIT SAGEBRUSH.

Investigator remarks

EXPERIENCED LOSS OF LIFT,LANDED OPEN FIELD,R WIN

Cause factors

83/A/D A
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION 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 2727. Source file NTSB_1970_3_2727.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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