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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK71DVG55

1971-02-15 RED BLUFF, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N122GH

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CIRRUS DESIGN SR22

Year of manufacture

2002

TCDS

A00009CH · CIRRUS DESIGN CORP

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-550 SERIES (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20020321

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A05BBE

Registrant of record

THOMPSON JASON

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N122GH Piper PA-24 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

PIPER PA-24 · N122GH

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

RED BLUFF

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000024-1866

Total time

2,930 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

3,000

Age

40

Cause factors

74/C/FF C
POWERPLANT SPINNERS,DOMES Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
88/B/DG B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL WHEELS-UP

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 0711. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0711.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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