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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK78DVA55

1978-07-14 MODESTO, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N731DZ Cessna 188B 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

CESSNA 188B · N731DZ

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

YANDELL

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

310° / 11 kt

Temp

100° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00018802827T

Total time

7,070 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

659

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

G OFF TO SPRAY ALFALFA FIELD.

Investigator remarks

AIRCRAFT HIT STEEL FENCE AROUND DAIRY BARN TAKIN

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
82/L/U L
WEATHER HIGH TEMPERATURE
88/K/24 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS JETTISONED LOAD 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 1347. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1347.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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