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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK71AP027

1970-11-25 BOULDER CITY, Nevada, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N736

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

QUEST AIRCRAFT COMPANY LLC KODIAK 100

Year of manufacture

2009

Engine

P&W CANADA PT6A-34 (750 hp)

Seats / Engines

10 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20111222

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A9E154

Registrant of record

UNITED STATES DEPT OF THE INTERIOR

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N736 Cessna TU206E Fatal

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 TU206E · N736

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

G

Kind of flying

DQ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000U20601515

Total time

187 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,533

Age

53

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

GUSTY,VARIABLE.ACFT SETTLED IN LAKE,NOSED OVR SANK

Investigator remarks

ROBERTSON STOL,AMPHIBIAN. LO LVL SURVEY FLT.WND

Cause factors

82/C/K C
WEATHER TURBULENCE IN FLIGHT,CLEAR AIR Cause
82/C/M C
WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS Cause
64/L/29 L
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING
88/L/88 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER

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 2944. Source file NTSB_1970_3_2944.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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