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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK71FVA27

1970-09-20 TIPTON, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N152A

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

COSTRUZIONI AERONAUTICHE TECNA P2002 SIERRA

Year of manufacture

2005

Engine

BOMBARDIER ROTAX (ALL)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20060908

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0D19D

Registrant of record

HOPWOOD BRIAN

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N152A Wittman W-8 Fatal

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

WITTMAN W-8 · N152A

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

300° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000000WH-1

Total time

700 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,928

Age

55

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RUT STRAP FAILED.R WING SEPD.FLT PHASE UNK.

Investigator remarks

R SPAR ATTACH FITTING FAILED AT WELD.FUSELAGE ST

Cause factors

70/A/AC A
AIRFRAME WING ATTACHMENT FITTINGS,BOLTS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/49 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT 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 1423. Source file NTSB_1970_3_1423.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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