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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK76DXQ02

1975-07-09 WASHOE CITY, Nevada, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6512

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GLASFLUGEL STANDARD LIBELLE

Year of manufacture

1969 · 6 years old at event

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19691217

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8930F

Registrant of record

BADAL GERARDO A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6512 Glasflugel H301B Minor

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

GLASFLUGEL H301B · N6512

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

DY

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

82° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000063

Total time

533 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

436

Age

22

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

STURE WITH WET GRASS.

Investigator remarks

SOARING X-C CONTEST. RAN OUT OF LIFT & LND IN PA

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
83/K/A K
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND 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 1747. Source file NTSB_1975_3_1747.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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