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OAK73DJY03

1972-08-01 · MAJURO, Other Foreign, Marshall Islands · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N4452 has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (BELL 206B, built 1973), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
GRUMMAN G44 · N4452
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
EE
Operator type
E
Kind of flying
CI

Weather at impact

Sky
SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET
Wind
022° / 5 kt
Temp
79° F

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000000034
Total time
549 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Flight instructor (CFI)
Total hours
1,698
Age
31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

N.ACFT SANK,NOT RCVRD.

Investigator remarks

HULL BOW SKIN SEPRTD ON WATER LDNG FOR UNDTMD RS

Cause factors

  • 70/A/BY A
    AIRFRAME OTHER Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/95 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/88 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 3964. Source file NTSB_1972_3_3964.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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