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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK72DVM32

1972-04-26 SANTA CRUZ, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3617Q

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SCHWEIZER SGS 1-36

Year of manufacture

1981

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19810302

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4135F

Registrant of record

CERMACK MICHAEL W

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3617Q Beech B23 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

BEECH B23 · N3617Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

SKY PARK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000MB-245

Total time

1,122 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

74

Age

34

Cause factors

64/A/46 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/B/07 B
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND
83/J/I J
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 1764. Source file NTSB_1972_3_1764.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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