Atlas / NTSB / OAK78DVG01

NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK78DVG01

1977-10-06 NAPA, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5343Q Cessna 150L 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 150L · N5343Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Total time

3,400 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,002

Age

37

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CTION YARD.

Investigator remarks

ACFT STRUCK RAILROAD TIES DURING LNDG IN CONSTRU

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
88/K/AS K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LANDED IN CONSTRUCTION AREA 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 3492. Source file NTSB_1977_3_3492.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Beyond the agency record

Search this event elsewhere.

Pre-filled searches into the sources where news + community discussion of aviation events lives. External sources are reported, not agency. Treat them as signal that something happened, not as fact about what happened.

TallyAero Live Wire Aviation press

Entity-clustered aviation events in the press — last 24 hr + 30-day archive.

NTSB CAROL Agency ↗

Official agency record + docket.

NTSB Docket Agency ↗

Investigative docket: factual reports, photos, transcripts.

Aviation Safety Network Aviation press ↗

Long-running aviation incident database (Flight Safety Foundation).

Kathryn's Report Aviation press ↗

Community NTSB synthesis blog — often has photos and witness reports.

Aviation Herald Aviation press ↗

Gold-standard aviation incident blog.