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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK77DVG32

1977-04-30 COLUSA, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2659E Aeronca 7AC Serious

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

AERONCA 7AC · N2659E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise climb (DB)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

DY

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

135° / 10 kt

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00007AC-6241

Total time

2,030 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

3,300

Age

62

Investigator remarks

BIRD CONTROL.

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/L/AQ L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND
88/K/DH K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY 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 0877. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0877.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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