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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK79DVG58

1979-06-30 LINCOLN, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2937W Weatherly 201B 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

WEATHERLY 201B · N2937W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

NO NAME

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

315° / 4 kt

Temp

72° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000000604

Total time

3,432 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

25,000

Age

57

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

INTO HIDDEN DIRT MOUNDS.

Investigator remarks

SPRAY BOOM CAUGHT IN TALL GRASS AND VEERED LEFT

Cause factors

64/C/35 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
83/C/D C
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 2028. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2028.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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