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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK76FXQ16

1975-09-12 RENO, Nevada, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N612MD N.AMERICAN AT-6 Fatal

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

N.AMERICAN AT-6 · N612MD

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

D

Airport

RENO-STEAD

Kind of flying

DF

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

060° / 4 kt

Temp

77° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000043771

Total time

4,985 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

12,100

Age

40

Investigator remarks

COLLIDED WITH PYLON DURING CLOSED COURSE RACE.

Cause factors

64/A/54 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 2799. Source file NTSB_1975_3_2799.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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