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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK72DVW34

1972-06-24 BOULDER CITY, Nevada, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3616H ERCO 415-C 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

ERCO 415-C · N3616H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

BOULDER CITY MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

170° / 20 kt

Temp

95° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000004241

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

50

Age

37

Investigator remarks

1ST FLT,NO DUAL.

Cause factors

64/C/02 C
PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION BEYOND EXPERIENCE/ABILITY LEVEL Cause
64/C/31 C
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT 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 2825. Source file NTSB_1972_3_2825.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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