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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK78FVM42

1978-08-18 SANTA CRUZ, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6186L

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SKISTMAS GEORGE PIETNPOL AIRCAMPER

Year of manufacture

1993

Engine

CONT MOTOR A-65-8 (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20070616

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A80FAB

Registrant of record

TOLEDO BUZZARDS LIGHT SPORT AIRCRAFT CLUB

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6186L Great Lakes 2T-1A 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

GREAT LAKES 2T-1A · N6186L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D7

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000719

Total time

270 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

13,000

Age

39

Investigator remarks

LOSS OF OIL PRESSURE FOR UNKNOWN REASON.

Cause factors

74/C/DY C
POWERPLANT OTHER Cause
88/C/CL C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PRESSURE TOO LOW Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN

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 2383. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2383.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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