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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK76FVA27

1975-11-11 MADERA, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2915S

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 150G

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-200 SERIES (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2FC49

Registrant of record

KOCH KENNETH SCOTT

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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 150 · N2915S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

295° / 6 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000150-66815

Total time

3,257 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

82

Age

43

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ME OUT.POSSIBLE TAMPERING.

Investigator remarks

STRUCK RUT IN CORN FIELD.ENGINE OIL SUMP PLUG CA

Cause factors

  • 74/C/DH C
    POWERPLANT MAGNETIC PLUGS Cause
  • 88/C/90 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MISSING Cause
  • 88/C/81 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OIL EXHAUSTION-ENGINE LUBRICATION SYSTEM Cause
  • 83/K/F K
    TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor
  • 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 3425. Source file NTSB_1975_3_3425.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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