NTSB CAROL · Event
Event OAK75DVA43
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
BOEING 75 · N56402
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
DJ
Operator type
Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)
Kind of flying
CA
Weather at impact
Sky
CLEAR
Aircraft history
Serial number
00000075-294
Total time
14,704 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
1,629
Age
31
Investigator remarks
NR 4 PISTON FAILED.
Cause factors
- 74/C/AE C POWERPLANT PISTON,PISTON RINGS Cause
- 88/C/95 C MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
- 83/B/F B TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN
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 0101.
Source file
NTSB_1975_3_0101.txt.
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