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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK74DVA53

1974-04-06 COALINGA, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8129F

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 150F

Year of manufacture

1966 · 8 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19681015

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB1463

Registrant of record

HIGH EXPOSURE INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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 150 · N8129F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

COALINGA

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000064229

Total time

1,616 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

31

Age

30

Investigator remarks

RIGHT CROSSWIND.VELOCITY NOT REPORTED.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/79 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
  • 64/L/80 L
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND
  • 80/K/BY K
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER 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 0613. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0613.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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