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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK76FVM34

1976-03-20 MONTEREY, 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

CESSNA 210 · N7345E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

D

Airport

CARMEL VALLEY

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000057045

Total time

1,993 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

200

Age

29

Investigator remarks

MIXT CTL BOLT MISSING.LOCK NUT FND IN NACELLE.

Cause factors

  • 68/C/D0 C
    PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause
  • 74/C/CI C
    POWERPLANT FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM Cause
  • 88/C/29 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY SECURED Cause
  • 88/C/CB C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY INSTALLED Cause
  • 88/C/96 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
  • 83/K/A K
    TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND 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 0763. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0763.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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