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SEA66F0052

1965-07-10 · SUNNYSIDE, Washington, United States · Serious · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
PIPER PA18A · N7573D
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
DJ
Operator type
Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)
Kind of flying
CA

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR
Temp
58° F

Aircraft history

Total time
1,088 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
850
Age
28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PILOT-TOXIC POISON IMPAIRED PHYSICAL EFFICIENCY

Investigator remarks

TOXIC SPRAY CHEMICAL PHOSDRIN BEING USED

Cause factors

  • 84/A/1 A
    MISCELLANEOUS VORTEX TURBULENCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 84/A/J A
    MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE Cause — pilot/personnel action

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

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 2 0512. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0512.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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