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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA68F0072

1967-06-17 BELLEVUE, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7291H

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER J-3

Year of manufacture

1946 · 21 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-200 SERIES (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19901005

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A9C77E

Registrant of record

DAVIS DAVID H

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7291H Piper J-3 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

PIPER J-3 · N7291H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

BELLEVUE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

240° / 7 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

6,789 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

125

Age

60

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

G. PKD ACFT N77032-SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE.

Investigator remarks

RIGHT QUARTERING HEAD WIND 40 DEG 7 KNOTS,GUSTIN

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/C/06 C
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF Cause
64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 3211. Source file NTSB_1967_3_3211.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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