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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK78FVD32

1978-04-23 HEALDSBURG, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3347G

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

HOWARD AIRCRAFT DGA-15P

Year of manufacture

1944 · 34 years old at event

Engine

P&W R-985 SERIES (450 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19630517

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3A7FF

Registrant of record

HOLCOMB AERIAL SERVICE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3347G Howard DGA15P 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

HOWARD DGA15P · N3347G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Total time

100 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,000

Age

42

Investigator remarks

AIRCRAFT LANDED IN VINEYARD.

Cause factors

74/C/AC C
POWERPLANT MASTER AND CONNECTING RODS Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
83/B/D B
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION

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 0648. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0648.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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