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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK77FA035

1977-06-04 COALINGA, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N924T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA 46-350P

Year of manufacture

2010

TCDS

A25SO · PIPER AIRCRAFT INC

Engine

LYCOMING TIO-540-AE2A (350 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20100205

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ACCEAF

Registrant of record

M & B AVIATION LLC

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

BEECH A33 · N924T

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise climb (DB)

Operator type

D

Airport

WILDO STRIP

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 10 kt

Temp

95° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000CD-126

Total time

4,200 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

500

Age

34

Cause factors

  • 64/A/52 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE AND CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/14 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS UNWARRANTED LOW FLYING 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 1820. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1820.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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