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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK72DVM07

1971-10-10 WATSONVILLE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2544B Convair L-13 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

CONVAIR L-13 · N2544B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

WATSONVILLE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

190° / 5 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000047-378

Total time

780 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

10,005

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ON NEXT LDG.

Investigator remarks

L GR SEPARATED. PLT MADE GO AROUND. FURTHER DMG

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 3818. Source file NTSB_1971_3_3818.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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