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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK79DVG28

1979-04-01 NAPA, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8740P Piper PA-24 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-24 · N8740P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

NAPA CO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 12 kt

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000024-4191

Total time

2,955 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

122

Age

49

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTY.

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
80/K/BF K
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SOFT SHOULDERS 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 0567. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0567.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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