Event OAK77DVW10

1977-05-20 LONE PINE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N20GY Lockheed 18-56 None

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

LOCKHEED 18-56 · N20GY

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Z

Weather

Z

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

DY

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000002437

Pilot

Certificate

ZA (ZA)

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RY INDEX PRESUMED.

Investigator remarks

ACFT ENGAGED IN FLYING CONTRABAND INTO USA. INJU

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
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 0820. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0820.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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