SEA66D0119
1965-09-11 · NOTUS, Idaho, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed
Current FAA registration · N765N
- Make / Model
- BIRD CK
- Year of manufacture
- 1932 · 33 years old at event
- Engine
- KINNER B5 SERIES (125 hp)
- Seats / Engines
- 3 seats · 1 engine
- Last airworthiness date
- 19600715
- ADS-B equipped
- Yes — Mode-S AA5547
Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).
Aircraft involved
Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)
- Aircraft
- BIRD CK · N765N
- Damage
- Substantial
- Craft type
- Airplane
- Classification
- Accident
- Light condition
- Dawn
- Weather
- VMC
- Phase of flight
- DF
- Operator type
- D
- Kind of flying
- CA
Weather at impact
- Sky
- CLEAR
- Temp
- 50° F
Pilot
- Certificate
- Flight instructor (CFI)
- Total hours
- 275
- Age
- 23
Investigator remarks
PILOT WAS SIGNALING THE FLAGMAN
Cause factors
- 64/A/16 A PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 64/J/08 J PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT Joint cause
Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).
Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket
3 2889.
Source file
NTSB_1965_3_2889.txt.
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