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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK76DXQ06

1975-08-02 SO.LAKE TAHOE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N144QB

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

DALLMAN DEGEAR STARDUSTER II

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0B2EC

Registrant of record

PETERS WILLIAM R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N144QB STARDUSTER 2 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

STARDUSTER 2 · N144QB

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Airport

LAKE TAHOE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 5 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000001

Total time

25 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,068

Age

46

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 1845. Source file NTSB_1975_3_1845.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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