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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK77FVA13

1976-12-31 MADERA, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5419Q Cessna 150L Minor

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 150L · N5419Q

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

Marginal VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

MADERA COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OBSCURATION

Wind

290° / 2 kt

Temp

47° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000150-73319

Total time

3,468 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

291

Age

21

Investigator remarks

VFR ARPTS AVAILABLE.

Cause factors

64/C/27 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/04 C
PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause
68/L/F0 L
PERSONNEL INCORRECT WEATHER FORECAST
82/L/C L
WEATHER FOG

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 3737. Source file NTSB_1976_3_3737.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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