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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK79DVD16

1979-02-27 ANNAPOLIS, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6156X

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

DALE M MATHEWS PL-9

Year of manufacture

2021

Engine

LYCOMING O-360-A1A (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20210417

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A80491

Registrant of record

MATHEWS DALE M

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6156X AERO COMDR 500B 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

AERO COMDR 500B · N6156X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

PROBERT

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000995-16

Total time

7,200 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

15,000

Age

58

Investigator remarks

GEAR SANK IN MUD HOLE.

Cause factors

64/C/35 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
80/L/BL L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SOFT RUNWAY

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 0175. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0175.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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