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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK78DVG84

1978-09-26 GRASS VALLEY, 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 · N48960

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Z

Airport

NEVADA COUNTY

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000081073

Total time

520 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

55

Age

33

Cause factors

  • 64/C/46 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
  • 88/3/AW 3
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 3

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 2519. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2519.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.