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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA68A0046

1968-01-11 RENTON, Washington, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4444U Cessna 150D Fatal

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 150D · N4444U

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D7

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

RENTON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

200° / 10 kt

Temp

42° F

Aircraft history

Total time

3,308 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

151

Age

25

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 0508. Source file NTSB_1968_3_0508.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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