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OAK71AP027

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

N736 has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (QUEST AIRCRAFT COMPANY LLC KODIAK 100, built 2009), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

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).

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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