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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK7LFVA07

1975-08-20 HANFORD, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N31145 Piper J-5 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

PIPER J-5 · N31145

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

315° / 5 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000005-316

Total time

2,850 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

5,600

Age

43

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

D OK.

Investigator remarks

EXH PIPE FAILED IN FLT. ACFT CAUGHT FIRE. PLT LN

Cause factors

74/A/G0 A
POWERPLANT MANIFOLDS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/51 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN ENGINE Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 2225. Source file NTSB_1975_3_2225.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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