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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK72DVA52

1972-02-18 PORTERVILLE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4341G

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MEINKE-GARTH STOLP ACRODUSTER II

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5347C

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

MCCULLOUGH J-2 · N4341G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

I

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

ROBERTS FARM

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000051

Total time

40 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,097

Age

25

Investigator remarks

CONT T/O WITH KNOWN A/S IND MALFUNCTION.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/J/01 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION W/KNOWN DEFICIENCIES IN EQUIPMENT Joint cause
  • 76/J/AB J
    INSTRUMENTS/EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES AIRSPEED Joint cause
  • 88/J/BR J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ERRATIC 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 0329. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0329.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.