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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK71FVA16

1970-08-16 MADERA, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5787K Beech S35 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

BEECH S35 · N5787K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000D-7572

Total time

1,068 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,463

Age

52

Investigator remarks

LND ON HILLSIDE. INVEST SHOWED NO MALFUNCTION.

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
64/3/21 3
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Subordinate · 3
88/3/34 3
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ENGINE LOADED UP Subordinate · 3

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 3293. Source file NTSB_1970_3_3293.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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