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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK77DVG24

1977-04-17 POPE VALLEY, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N91230

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 180H

Year of manufacture

1969 · 8 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19690410

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ACA0F3

Registrant of record

CUTTING & SEKTNAN INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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 180 · N91230

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

POPE VALLEY

Kind of flying

DG

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 8 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018052016

Total time

4,498 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

351

Age

21

Investigator remarks

LOOSE GRAVEL ON RUNWAY.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/79 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/C/06 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF Cause
  • 80/J/BK J
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES POORLY MAINTAINED RUNWAY SURFACE Joint cause
  • 82/J/H J
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Joint cause

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 0634. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0634.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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