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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK73DVA25

1972-10-14 LONE PINE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5522E

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 150

Year of manufacture

1958 · 14 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-200 SERIES (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19581104

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7097C

Registrant of record

BAUMAN RAYMOND SCOTT

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

CESSNA 150 · N5522E

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

Z

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

TEMPLETON MEADOW

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000017022

Total time

3,380 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

280

Age

41

Investigator remarks

1900FT STRIP,8800FT ELEV.AVDG TREES.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/29 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/02 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION BEYOND EXPERIENCE/ABILITY LEVEL Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 84/A/7 A
    MISCELLANEOUS EVASIVE MANEUVER TO AVOID COLLISION Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/W J
    WEATHER HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE Joint cause
  • 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 2753. Source file NTSB_1972_3_2753.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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