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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK74DVM16

1973-12-08 MOSS BEACH, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N11E

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH 35

Year of manufacture

1947 · 26 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR E185 SERIES (205 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560315

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A02A3E

Registrant of record

SALE REPORTED

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

BEECH 35 · N11E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

HALF MOON BAY

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

020° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000000D699

Total time

4,394 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

7,731

Age

34

Investigator remarks

WGS & FUSELAGE OVR STRESSED. PLT LND OK.

Cause factors

  • 82/A/K A
    WEATHER TURBULENCE IN FLIGHT,CLEAR AIR Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3933. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3933.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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