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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK72FVG16

1971-08-17 DAVIS, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N594Y Grumman G-164 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

GRUMMAN G-164 · N594Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Day

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

CHEW BROS.

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000256

Total time

3,845 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

16,000

Age

41

Cause factors

70/A/CA A
AIRFRAME MAIN GEAR-SHOCK ABSORBING ASSY,STRUTS,ATTACHMENTS,ETC. Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/36 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/AH J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PREVIOUS DAMAGE 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 3099. Source file NTSB_1971_3_3099.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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