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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA66F0007

1965-05-31 OLYMPIA, Washington, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N18923

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

RYAN AERONAUTICAL ST-A

Year of manufacture

1939 · 26 years old at event

Engine

MENASCO SUP PIRT D4B (160 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19581021

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A164D5

Registrant of record

PLANE FUN INC TR TRUSTEE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

RYAN ST-A · N18923

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

AERO PLAZA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

2,245 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,835

Age

45

Cause factors

  • 64/C/48 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE 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 2 0299. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0299.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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