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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK72DVA53

1972-03-07 MADERA, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N713Y Grumman G-164 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

GRUMMAN G-164 · N713Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

045° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000357

Total time

1,853 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,751

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ROAD.

Investigator remarks

UN LOCATE ARPT,CONTD TO FRESNO.HIT CHUCKHOLE IN

Cause factors

64/C/03 C
PILOT IN COMMAND BECAME LOST/DISORIENTED Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
83/B/Y B
TERRAIN OTHER

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 0719. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0719.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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