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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK71FVG51

1971-02-03 CHICO, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N44849 NAVAL FCTY N3N 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

NAVAL FCTY N3N · N44849

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

CHICO

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000004432

Total time

6,389 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

10,000

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

T HAD LNDD GR UP AND WAS UNLIGHTED ON RWY.

Investigator remarks

HIT AND SUBSTANTIALLY DMGD CESSNA 320 N4120T THA

Cause factors

80/A/BE A
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES UNMARKED OBSTRUCTIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 0279. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0279.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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