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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA67D0155

1966-09-13 SNOHOMISH, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5789R

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172G

Year of manufacture

1965 · 1 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-300 SER (145 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19651005

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A76FC4

Registrant of record

SHIPLEY LUCAS S

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

CESSNA 172 · N5789R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

HARVEY FIELD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

58° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,097 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

130

Age

33

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PLT RELEASED BRAKE.ACFT ACCELERATED FWD,HIT POST.

Investigator remarks

EXCESSIVE TAXI POWER NEEDED DUE PARKING BRAKE ON

Cause factors

  • 64/A/29 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/21 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/J/08 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT 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 3 3880. Source file NTSB_1966_3_3880.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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