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SEA67A0075

1967-06-21 · KETCHUM, Idaho, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
NAVION L-17A · N9645C
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
D
Airport
SMILEY CREEK
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
PARTIAL OBSCURATION

Aircraft history

Total time
2,404 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
339
Age
26

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

THROUGH MOUNTAIN PASS SHROUDED BY CLOUDS.

Investigator remarks

PLT,NOT EXPERIENCED IN MNTN FLT ATTEMPTED TO FLY

Cause factors

  • 64/A/29 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/52 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE AND CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/04 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
  • 82/J/B J
    WEATHER RAIN Joint cause

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

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 2 0994. Source file NTSB_1967_2_0994.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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