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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK73DVG60

1973-04-24 NELSON, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N45307 NAVAL FCTY N3N 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

NAVAL FCTY N3N · N45307

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

AG STRIP

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 7 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Total time

9,547 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,300

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ROLL,GRND LOOPED,HIT DITCH AND NOSED OVR.

Investigator remarks

HIGH GROSS WT ON TKOF.R GR DMGD BY LEVEE.ON LDG

Cause factors

64/C/17 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE,SPEED,ALTITUDE OR CLEARANCE Cause
80/L/BE L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES UNMARKED OBSTRUCTIONS
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 1115. Source file NTSB_1973_3_1115.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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