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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK78FA010

1977-12-18 LITTLE RIVER, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N29275 Cessna U206 Fatal

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 U206 · N29275

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

MENDOCINO COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000U206-1203

Total time

3,070 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

493

Age

33

Cause factors

68/A/J2 A
PERSONNEL POOR/INADEQUATE DESIGN Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/C/87 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WATER IN FUEL Cause
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 3959. Source file NTSB_1977_3_3959.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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