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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK71DVA84

1971-05-25 TULARE, California, United States Minor 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 210 · N9618T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

TULARE AIRPARK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000057418

Total time

941 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

IA (IA)

Total hours

0

Age

21

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TURNED SIDEWAYS,CRASHED AFT LIFT-OFF.

Investigator remarks

ACFT STOLEN.KEY IN IGNITION,DOOR NOT LOCKED-ACFT

Cause factors

  • 84/A/8 A
    MISCELLANEOUS UNQUALIFIED PERSON OPERATED AIRCRAFT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/26 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS STOLEN OR UNAUTHORIZED USE OF AIRCRAFT 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 1705. Source file NTSB_1971_3_1705.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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