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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK73DVG17

1972-09-12 ALTURAS, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9194Q Beech 56TC 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 56TC · N9194Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

ALTURAS

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001792

Total time

10,899 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

13,100

Age

43

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SE POWER

Investigator remarks

MALFUNCTION OF STARTER VIBRATOR CAUSED ENG TO LO

Cause factors

70/A/CA A
AIRFRAME MAIN GEAR-SHOCK ABSORBING ASSY,STRUTS,ATTACHMENTS,ETC. Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE 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 3504. Source file NTSB_1972_3_3504.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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