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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA67A0016

1966-08-21 BELLINGHAM, Washington, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

FAIRCHILD M-62C · N58737

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D7

Operator type

D

Airport

ELIZA ISLAND

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

315° / 3 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

752 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

351

Age

30

Cause factors

  • 64/A/23 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/33 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/14 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS UNWARRANTED LOW FLYING Joint cause
  • 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). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 2 0739. Source file NTSB_1966_2_0739.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.