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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK70FVA17

1970-05-23 TULARE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4420L

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172G

Year of manufacture

1966 · 4 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-300 SER (145 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19660422

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5546E

Registrant of record

MIC JACK LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4420L Cessna 172G 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 172G · N4420L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

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

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017254507

Total time

466 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

255

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SW,FENCES S,E.

Investigator remarks

DIRT ROAD APRX 0.2MI LONG,PWR LINES N,STANDPIPE

Cause factors

64/C/35 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
83/B/Y B
TERRAIN OTHER

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 2232. Source file NTSB_1970_3_2232.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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