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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK79DVA16

1979-01-26 TULARE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

CESSNA 140 · N89057

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

GALLAGHER

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000008061

Total time

2,407 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,998

Age

39

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RBULENCE.

Investigator remarks

DEPT RWY ON LNDG ROLL AFTER ENCOUNTERING WAKE TU

Cause factors

  • 64/A/20 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 84/J/1 J
    MISCELLANEOUS VORTEX TURBULENCE Joint cause

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 0074. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0074.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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