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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK71FVG20

1970-09-05 CHICO, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5708W Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N5708W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

D

Airport

RANCHERO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

225° / 12 kt

Temp

98° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000028-1168

Total time

3,425 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

207

Age

33

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

GH,CLOSE TO DEP END OF RWY.WND GUSTING 18K.

Investigator remarks

RWY LNGTH 2280FT,PAVED.ORCHARD,TREES ABT 20FT HI

Cause factors

64/A/06 A
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/U J
WEATHER HIGH TEMPERATURE 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 3617. Source file NTSB_1970_3_3617.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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