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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK75DVD47

1975-05-12 SONOMA, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9062B Aeronca 7EC 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

AERONCA 7EC · N9062B

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

SONOMA VALLEY

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000641

Total time

3,042 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

114

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RWY FOR ROW OF REFLECTORS.

Investigator remarks

RWY LTD BY REFLECTORS.PLT MISTOOK FENCE TO R OF

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/13 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS NOT ALIGNED WITH RUNWAY/INTENDED LANDING AREA Cause — pilot/personnel action
80/J/BY J
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER 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 1127. Source file NTSB_1975_3_1127.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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