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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK75FVG49

1975-03-23 FAIRFIELD, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1869G

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CHAMPION 7GCAA

Year of manufacture

1968 · 7 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19680515

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A15A90

Registrant of record

MCDANIEL RONNIE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1869G Champion 7GCAA 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 7GCAA · N1869G

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000189

Total time

1,286 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

137

Age

19

Investigator remarks

SIM EMERG LDG.

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/J/07 J
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Joint cause
88/J/85 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS 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 0482. Source file NTSB_1975_3_0482.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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