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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK76DVG54

1976-03-16 CHICO, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1451R AMER AVCO AA1-B 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

AMER AVCO AA1-B · N1451R

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

RANCHAERO

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000551

Total time

320 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

27

Age

35

Investigator remarks

BALLOONED & LOST CTL AT LVL OFF.

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
64/C/50 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED SPEED 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 0918. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0918.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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