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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK78FVD03

1977-10-23 SAN RAFAEL, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N66766

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

STINSON L-5

Year of manufacture

1942 · 35 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-435A/0-435C (190 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19570403

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8D183

Registrant of record

OLSON JONATHAN

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N66766 Stinson L-5 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

STINSON L-5 · N66766

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

SMITH RANCH

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001620

Total time

1,351 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,439

Age

54

Investigator remarks

NARROW RWY.

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
80/L/BY L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER

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 3196. Source file NTSB_1977_3_3196.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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