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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK73DVM29

1973-04-19 SANTA CRUZ, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N90970

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-18-150

Year of manufacture

1981

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19810729

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC9401

Registrant of record

DARR REALTY LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N90970 Bellanca 7GCBC 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

BELLANCA 7GCBC · N90970

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

310° / 25 kt

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000427-73

Total time

42 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,615

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OK. R WG HIT FENCE POST.

Investigator remarks

DEMONSTRATED PWR OFF FULL FLAP APCH,GUSTING TO 4

Cause factors

64/A/07 A
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/A/H A
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/J/33 J
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Joint cause
88/J/85 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS 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 0891. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0891.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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