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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK76DVA72

1976-06-29 LOS BANOS, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

AERO COMDR 600S2D · N1744S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DK

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 2 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00600-1344-D

Total time

3,173 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

13,636

Age

50

Investigator remarks

TREES PREVENTED RECOVERY ATTMPT.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 84/J/7 J
    MISCELLANEOUS EVASIVE MANEUVER TO AVOID COLLISION Joint cause
  • 83/J/I J
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint cause
  • 88/J/DC J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LOAD NOT JETTISONED 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 1578. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1578.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.