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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK77FA003

1976-10-23 COALINGA, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7317R Beech A36 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

BEECH A36 · N7317R

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D9

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000E566

Total time

291 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

100

Age

32

Investigator remarks

ELEVATOR TRIM TAB 7.5 DEGREES NOSE DOWN.

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/1/AW 1
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 1

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 3824. Source file NTSB_1976_3_3824.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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