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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK76FVM26

1976-03-03 WATSONVILLE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

BOEING B75 · N68986

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

ATWOOD STRIP

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

090° / 2 kt

Temp

34° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000075-5049

Total time

7,454 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

17,010

Age

48

Investigator remarks

DUSTING BROCCOLI.

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 0828. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0828.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.