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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK72AP005

1971-08-08 HONOLULU, Hawaii, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7415 Vickers 745D 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

VICKERS 745D · N7415

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Airport

HONOLULU INTL

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000113

Total time

31,355 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

11,800

Age

43

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

DUE HEAT ENERGY ABSORPTION OVR UNK PERIOD OF TIME

Investigator remarks

UNDETECTED ELEC SHRT,L BATT CAUSED THERM RUNAWAY

Cause factors

75/A/AA A
SYSTEMS BATTERIES Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/CI A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERHEATED Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/50 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN CABIN,COCKPIT,BAGGAGE COMPARTMENT 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 1 0013. Source file NTSB_1971_1_0013.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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