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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK74FVW16

1974-04-06 LONE PINE, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4341C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CHAMPION AERONCA 7EC

Year of manufacture

1955 · 19 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C90 SERIES (95 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19551020

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A53478

Registrant of record

HOFER PERRY L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4341C Champion 7EC Minor

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

CHAMPION 7EC · N4341C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

D

Airport

LOWER WARM SPRNGS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000357

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

449

Age

32

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CED IN AIR.PLT TRIED GO ARND INTO RISING TERRAIN.

Investigator remarks

RUTS AND BUMPS IN SHORT RWY.ACFT HIT BUMP & BOUN

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/07 A
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause — pilot/personnel action
80/J/BK J
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES POORLY MAINTAINED RUNWAY SURFACE Joint cause
83/J/I J
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint cause

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 0606. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0606.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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