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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK72FVD39

1972-04-06 FREMONT, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N77BS

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SCHWEIZER SGS 1-34

Year of manufacture

1969 · 3 years old at event

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19691113

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA66D8

Registrant of record

DICKMAN MARC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N77BS Schweizer 1-34 Serious

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

SCHWEIZER 1-34 · N77BS

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

FREMONT

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 20 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000004

Total time

334 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

616

Age

24

Investigator remarks

RIDGE SOARING.

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 0885. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0885.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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