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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK79DVG10

1979-01-12 AUBURN, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N35424

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER J5A

Year of manufacture

1941 · 38 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19970506

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3F664

Registrant of record

TERKEURST WILLIAM J IV

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N35424 Piper J5A 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 J5A · N35424

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

D

Airport

AUBURN MUNICIPAL

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

230° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000005-675

Total time

1,899 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

475

Age

53

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

DING.

Investigator remarks

ACFT STRUCK PARIMETER FENCE DURING EMERGENCY LAN

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
88/C/34 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ENGINE LOADED UP Cause
88/K/91 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS TOUCH AND GO LANDING 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 0141. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0141.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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