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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK79DVM10

1979-01-20 MONTEREY, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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

CESSNA 152 · N25562

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

MONTEREY PNSLA

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

295° / 10 kt

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015280731

Total time

613 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

17

Age

21

Cause factors

  • 64/C/46 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
  • 75/L/AL L
    SYSTEMS SWITCHES
  • 88/L/95 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE
  • 88/L/91 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS TOUCH AND GO LANDING

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 0020. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0020.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.