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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK79DVA27

1979-04-19 MADERA, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N52068 Boeing A75 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

BOEING A75 · N52068

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DH

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

DIRT STRIP AVE 11

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

315° / 5 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000075-3701

Total time

7,943 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

9,000

Age

42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SH FIRES.ACFT DID NOT BURN.

Investigator remarks

AFTER IMPCT WITH WIRE SULPHUR CAUSED SEVERAL FLA

Cause factors

64/A/15 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/79 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SUNGLARE 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 0596. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0596.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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