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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK71FVG15

1970-08-31 WINTERS, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N45125 NAVAL FCTY N3N Serious

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

NAVAL FCTY N3N · N45125

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DG

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000004453

Total time

7,428 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

12,550

Age

46

Investigator remarks

HIT STATIC CABLE ON 1ST RUN FROM W TO E.

Cause factors

64/A/54 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/79 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SUNGLARE Joint cause
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 3413. Source file NTSB_1970_3_3413.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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