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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK78DVG58

1978-06-25 AUBURN, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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 152 · N714YZ

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

AUBURN MUNI

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

240° / 5 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015279550

Total time

635 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

26

Age

45

Cause factors

  • 64/C/22 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause

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 1132. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1132.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.