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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK71FVG08

1970-08-02 PARADISE, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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

FAIRCHILD M-62-A · N48046

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

PARADISE SKY PARK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000T43-5855

Total time

2,491 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

989

Age

68

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

D.TURNED ACFT TO AVOID TRRN L WING HIT HILLSIDE.

Investigator remarks

RWY UPHILL PLT PAX BOUNCED LDG,PIC MADE GO-AROUN

Cause factors

  • 65/C/25 C
    COPILOT Cause
  • 64/C/30 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause
  • 64/B/51 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED SPEED AND CLEARANCE
  • 83/J/I J
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 3056. Source file NTSB_1970_3_3056.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.