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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK79DVD32

1979-06-22 SANTA ROSA, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2323L Piper PA-38 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

PIPER PA-38 · N2323L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

SONOMA CO

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

140° / 10 kt

Temp

82° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Total time

101 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

70

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PERIENCED POWER LOSS DUE TO WATER IN FUEL.

Investigator remarks

TWO OTHER ACFT SERVICED BY SAME STORAGE TANKS EX

Cause factors

68/C/D8 C
PERSONNEL OTHER Cause
64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/87 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WATER IN FUEL Cause
83/K/A K
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND Joint factor

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 1054. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1054.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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