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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK72DVG48

1972-03-30 ALTURAS, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N34162

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 177B

Year of manufacture

1972 · 0 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19820114

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3C44A

Registrant of record

BOWIE KWAME JAMES

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N34162 Cessna 177B 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

CESSNA 177B · N34162

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

ALTURAS MUNICIPAL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

53° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000177-01680

Total time

191 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

161

Age

43

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SPOND CRASHED.

Investigator remarks

PLT OPENED THROTTLE TOO FAST,ENG HESITATED TO RE

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/C/07 C
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause
64/B/21 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS

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 1108. Source file NTSB_1972_3_1108.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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