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OAK74AP053

1974-04-11 · HILO, Hawaii, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
BEECH H18S · N28358
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
IMC
Phase of flight
D2
Operator type
E
Kind of flying
CI

Weather at impact

Sky
OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000BA-755
Total time
6,835 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
DA (DA)
Total hours
4,490
Age
25

Investigator remarks

FLEW INTO MTN SLOPE.RECOVERY DATE 4/12/74.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/04 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 83/J/I J
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint cause
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 4039. Source file NTSB_1974_3_4039.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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