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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK79DVG59

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

Registry · N6628E

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH C23

Year of manufacture

1979 · 0 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19790509

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8BF1C

Registrant of record

PHILLIPS ALAN K

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6628E Beech C23 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

BEECH C23 · N6628E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

NEVADA COUNTY AIR

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000M2181

Total time

115 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

46

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

THOUGHT IT WAS END OF RNWY.VEERD INTO DITCH BRKNG

Investigator remarks

RUNWAY HAD CREST OR RISE HALFWAY DN RNWY.STUDENT

Cause factors

64/C/44 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SPONTANEOUS-IMPROPER ACTION Cause
80/L/BY L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER
88/3/AW 3
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 3

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 2002. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2002.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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