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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK78DVA57

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

Aircraft involved

N9929M Emair MA-1B 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

EMAIR MA-1B · N9929M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

95° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Total time

400 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

500

Age

22

Investigator remarks

LNDD TOO FAR DOWN DIRT ROAD.

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/C/82 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause
88/B/DF B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL GROUND-WATER-LOOP-SWERVE
88/L/AQ L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND
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 1475. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1475.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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