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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK75FVG42

1974-12-25 CHICO, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3315J

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 150G

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-200 SERIES (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19670127

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A39C96

Registrant of record

FLYING SHIBA INUS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

CESSNA 150 · N3315J

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

CHICO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

50° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000150066015

Total time

1,587 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

102

Age

34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

R LINES.

Investigator remarks

INADVERTENTLY LOWERED FULL FLAPS.SETTLED INTO PW

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/71 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISUSED OR FAILED TO USE FLAPS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/44 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SPONTANEOUS-IMPROPER ACTION Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 4027. Source file NTSB_1974_3_4027.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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