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SEA67A0001

1966-07-03 · BEAVERTON, Oregon, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
RYAN ST-3KR · N50879
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D7
Operator type
D
Airport
BERNARD
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET
Wind
280° / 9 kt
Temp
66° F

Aircraft history

Total time
2,132 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
350
Age
32

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OBATIC MANEUVER.

Investigator remarks

ACFT ENTERED SPIN DURING A FALLING-LEAF TYPE ACR

Cause factors

  • 64/A/23 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS 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 0545. Source file NTSB_1966_2_0545.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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