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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK75FVA56

1975-04-19 TULARE, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5705S

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SCHWEIZER SGS 1-26B

Year of manufacture

1967 · 8 years old at event

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19680223

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A75181

Registrant of record

CRAWFORD SUSAN B

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5705S Schweizer SGS126 Serious

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

SCHWEIZER SGS126 · N5705S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

TULARE AIRPARK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

315° / 10 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000383

Total time

652 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

31

Age

53

Investigator remarks

MISUSED SPOILERS.

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
64/L/31 L
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT
64/L/20 L
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC.

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 0833. Source file NTSB_1975_3_0833.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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