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OAK70FVD31

1970-06-27 · SONOMA, California, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N2233L has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (PIPER PA-32-300, built 1979), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
STITS SA3A · N2233L
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D7
Operator type
D
Airport
SONOMA SKY PARK
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number
0000000BJ-C1
Total time
264 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
DA (DA)
Total hours
2,285
Age
26

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

O AN AIR SHOW.

Investigator remarks

PLT ATTEMPTED SLOW ROLL RIGHT AFTER T/O ON WAY T

Cause factors

  • 64/A/33 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/14 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS UNWARRANTED LOW FLYING Cause — pilot/personnel action

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 0948. Source file NTSB_1970_3_0948.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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