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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK75FVM26

1975-04-13 SALINAS, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N66335 Cessna 150M 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

CESSNA 150M · N66335

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

270° / 15 kt

Temp

53° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00150-75-989

Total time

466 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,845

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RMINED REASON.

Investigator remarks

INSTRUCTOR TRAINEE.POWER INTERRUPTION FOR UNDETE

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/27 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING
64/B/52 B
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE AND CLEARANCE
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor

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 0948. Source file NTSB_1975_3_0948.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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