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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK74DVA49

1974-03-24 TULARE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N34825

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

REARWIN 8135

Engine

KEN ROYCE 7 SERIES (120 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19910429

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3DDC2

Registrant of record

KOLLER JOHN M

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N34825 Cessna 177B 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

CESSNA 177B · N34825

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

TULARE AIRPARK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000177702027

Total time

140 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

173

Age

52

Investigator remarks

PORPOISED LDG.

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
64/B/62 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
88/L/22 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH

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 0485. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0485.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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