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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK79FVW01

1978-10-24 HENDERSON, Nevada, 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 · N68912

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

SKY HARBOR

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

140° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015282398

Total time

32 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

162

Age

25

Investigator remarks

ACFT COLLIDED WITH LARGE ROCKS OFF SIDE OF RWY.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/79 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause

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 2834. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2834.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.