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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK71DVM10

1970-08-12 SANTA CRUZ, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8L

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

RANS S-1C

Year of manufacture

1963 · 7 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20091118

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AADE25

Registrant of record

EVERYTHING PITTS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8L Pitts S1C 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

PITTS S1C · N8L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D7

Operator type

D

Airport

SKYPARK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

310° / 3 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000011

Total time

860 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

928

Age

36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

Y AFTER TKOF.HIT GRND WHILE IN INVERTED LVL FLT.

Investigator remarks

PRACTICE FOR AIR SHOW.ATMTD SLOW ROLL IMMEDIATEL

Cause factors

64/A/52 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE AND CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3320. Source file NTSB_1970_3_3320.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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