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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK71FVM58

1971-06-12 HOLLISTER, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N34VM

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH A45

Year of manufacture

1954 · 17 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-550 SERIES (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20030623

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3BCDC

Registrant of record

ROBERTS GLENN T

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

ZLIN 526F · N34VM

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D7

Operator type

D

Airport

HOLLISTER

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 15 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001090

Total time

289 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

334

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

GL. PLT INCAPACITATED FOR UNDETERMINED REASON.

Investigator remarks

OBS SAW ACFT FALL FROM 4 PT ROLL ABOUT 2500 FT A

Cause factors

  • 64/A/64 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INCAPACITATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/1/AW 1
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 1

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 0924. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0924.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.