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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK76FVG71

1976-05-09 DAVIS, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3528N Mooney M20F 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

MOONEY M20F · N3528N

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

E

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

DAVIS UNIVERSITY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 5 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000680086

Total time

2,134 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

356

Age

56

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PLT STATED HE WAS DISTRACTED BY OTR ACFT.

Investigator remarks

HIT UNMARKED PWR LINES 39FT AGL 1300FT FRM RWY.

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
88/L/22 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor
64/L/08 L
PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT

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 0980. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0980.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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