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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK71DVW21

1970-12-22 LONE PINE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N61218 Cessna 150J 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

CESSNA 150J · N61218

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

50° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015070893

Total time

933 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

749

Age

24

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

WERVED INTO HIGHER GRND BESIDE RWY.

Investigator remarks

T/O FROM UNIMPROVED DIRT STRIP. HIT ROUGH AREA,S

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/35 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
83/L/F L
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 4513. Source file NTSB_1970_3_4513.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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