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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK76DVG60

1976-03-24 RED BLUFF, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6881B Piper PA-18A 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-18A · N6881B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Public use

Airport

BIDWELL FIELD

Kind of flying

CG

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

015° / 30 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000018-5068

Total time

22,320 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

7,829

Age

40

Investigator remarks

TKOF FRM TAXIWAY DUE WINDS GUSTING TO 40K.

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
64/C/33 C
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause
82/C/H C
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 0586. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0586.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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