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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA68D0277

1968-03-30 OCEAN SHORES, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1276N

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

FAIRCHILD 24W-41A

Engine

WARNER SS165 SERIES (175 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19561031

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A070EA

Registrant of record

GREEK HOUSING SERVICES CORP

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1276N Fairchild 24W 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

FAIRCHILD 24W · N1276N

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

CORNING

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

090° / 6 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

730 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

302

Age

42

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
64/L/31 L
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT

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 2546. Source file NTSB_1968_3_2546.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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