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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK76FVG64

1976-04-04 ALTURAS, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1092P Piper PA-23 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

PIPER PA-23 · N1092P

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

ALTURAS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

290° / 15 kt

Temp

50° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000101

Total time

2,981 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

15,422

Age

50

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

IDGE,LND IN BRUSH & TREES.

Investigator remarks

NR 4 CYL CONROD BOLTS FAILED,L ENG. UN CLR MTN R

Cause factors

74/C/AC C
POWERPLANT MASTER AND CONNECTING RODS Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
88/B/DG B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL WHEELS-UP
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 1151. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1151.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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