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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK76DVG18

1975-08-24 PARADISE, California, United States Serious 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

CESSNA 182 · N667PZ

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

PARADISE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 15 kt

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000182-59680

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

301

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

BANK. PLT STATED REQ TO LND DOWNWIND.

Investigator remarks

LND LONG & PORPOISED. DRG GO ARND DRIFTED L INTO

Cause factors

  • 64/C/07 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause
  • 64/C/46 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
  • 64/B/62 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING
  • 80/K/BY K
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER Joint factor
  • 88/L/AQ L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND

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 3366. Source file NTSB_1975_3_3366.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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