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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK70FVA03

1970-01-24 TULARE, 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 310 · N2661C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

GALLAHER

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 2 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000035061

Total time

2,886 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

19,000

Age

52

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

READ AREA.LDG GR DMGD FURTHER DRG LDG.

Investigator remarks

PUSH-PULL LOCK ASSEMBLY P/N 0841000-58 BKN IN TH

Cause factors

  • 70/A/CB A
    AIRFRAME NORMAL RETRACTION/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/94 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint cause

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 0486. Source file NTSB_1970_3_0486.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.