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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK76DVD42

1976-07-21 STOCKTON, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2BL

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20K

Year of manufacture

1979

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-360 GB (210 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20110726

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A18D75

Registrant of record

INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES INC TRUSTEE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2BL Piper PA-34 None

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

PIPER PA-34 · N2BL

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Business

Airport

LUIS FARMS STRIP

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000007250198

Total time

1,227 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

933

Age

53

Investigator remarks

R WG CAUGHT TALL CORN NEXT TO STRIP.

Cause factors

64/C/35 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
83/L/D L
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION

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 1703. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1703.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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