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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK76AP046

1976-03-31 SALINAS, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2767S

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

LARSEN MARK BUDDY BABY LAKES

Year of manufacture

2003

Engine

LYCOMING 0-290 SERIES (140 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20050524

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2C024

Registrant of record

LARSEN MARK A

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 150G · N2767S

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D9

Operator type

D

Airport

SALINAS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Temp

46° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015066667

Total time

3,759 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

500

Age

26

Investigator remarks

PLT BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL 0.13%,PAX SAME.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/40 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INITIATED FLIGHT IN ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/66 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SPATIAL DISORIENTATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/65 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/67 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ALCOHOLIC IMPAIRMENT OF EFFICIENCY AND JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
  • 82/J/C J
    WEATHER FOG 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 1136. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1136.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.