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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK72DVA43

1972-02-06 LOS BANOS, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N50668

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

WOODWORTH PHILIP W SPIRIT XL

Year of manufacture

2002

Engine

ROTAX 582DCDI (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20060804

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A65385

Registrant of record

BERG JOHN D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N50668 Cessna 150J Serious

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 150J · N50668

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D9

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

56° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000150-69472

Total time

1,920 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

64

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

Y BREATHING.LOST CTL,CRASHED INTO RESEVOIR.

Investigator remarks

PLT EXPERIENCED CHEST PAINS,COLDNESS & DIFFICULT

Cause factors

64/A/65 A
PILOT IN COMMAND PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/66 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS HYPERVENTILATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/88 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER 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 4160. Source file NTSB_1972_3_4160.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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