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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK78FVG77

1978-08-28 AUBURN, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9808R

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH M35

Year of manufacture

1960 · 18 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19600202

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ADAEA4

Registrant of record

I M FOXBO LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

BEECH M35 · N9808R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

AUBURN

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

045° / 7 kt

Temp

82° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000D-6316

Total time

3,827 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,077

Age

52

Cause factors

  • 74/C/KA C
    POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
  • 64/B/48 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE

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 2073. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2073.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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