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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA67F0146

1966-08-14 NORTH BEND, Oregon, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N82802

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AERONCA 7AC

Year of manufacture

1946 · 20 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR A&C75 SERIES (75 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19740220

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB5106

Registrant of record

KIMBREL MARTIN E

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N82802 Aeronca 7AC None

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

AERONCA 7AC · N82802

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

D

Airport

NORTH BEND MUNI.

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

4,682 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

205

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

UT TAXI OR LDG LITES,RAN OFF APP END RWY INTO SAND

Investigator remarks

NITE DOWNWIND TAXI AT HIGH SPD ON RWY,ACFT,WITHO

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
88/J/94 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 4175. Source file NTSB_1966_3_4175.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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