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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK72AP040

1972-05-10 MODESTO, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3862S Cessna 172E Fatal

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

CESSNA 172E · N3862S

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D9

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017251062

Total time

6,575 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

505

Age

56

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ROSIS.

Investigator remarks

RECOVERED IN ORCHARD 5/11/72. SEVERE ARTERIOSCLE

Cause factors

64/A/64 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INCAPACITATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/65 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PILOT SUFFERED HEART ATTACK 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 3691. Source file NTSB_1972_3_3691.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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