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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK78DVA63

1978-07-27 COALINGA, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5408F Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N5408F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

HARRIS RANCH

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 5 kt

Temp

106° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-7790113

Total time

1,085 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

69

Age

26

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

T.

Investigator remarks

PLT THOUGHT STRIP WAS 4000FT LONG,ACTUALLY 2800F

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/06 A
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/U J
WEATHER HIGH TEMPERATURE Joint cause
88/J/DH J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY Joint cause
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 1605. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1605.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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