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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK79FVM03

1978-11-12 MONTEREY, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9930C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SILVAIRE 8F

Year of manufacture

1959 · 19 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C90 SERIES (95 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19590622

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ADE023

Registrant of record

ROACH STEPHEN W

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9930C Luscombe 8F 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

LUSCOMBE 8F · N9930C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

PENINSULA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

210° / 18 kt

Temp

52° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000000S-34

Total time

913 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

328

Age

49

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
82/K/H K
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 3172. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3172.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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