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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK74DVW14

1974-03-14 LONE PINE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N21999 Cessna 150L 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 150L · N21999

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

270° / 20 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015074600

Total time

680 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

50

Age

20

Investigator remarks

BECAME LOST ON SOLO XC.

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/27 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/03 C
PILOT IN COMMAND BECAME LOST/DISORIENTED Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 0477. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0477.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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