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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA68F0164

1967-09-19 FORKS, Washington, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N773D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SCHWEIZER AIRCRAFT CORP G-164B

Year of manufacture

1985

TCDS

1A16 · ALLIED AG CAT PRODUCTIONS

Engine

WALTER M601E-11 (751 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20070403

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA7477

Registrant of record

CE-AIR INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N773D Beech C35 Minor

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

BEECH C35 · N773D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

Business

Airport

FORKS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

220° / 4 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

2,561 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,501

Age

56

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

E LOW ALTITUDE TURN TO AVOID HOUSE.

Investigator remarks

SMALL METAL CHIPS LODGED IN RELIEF VALVE.PLT MAD

Cause factors

74/C/CH C
POWERPLANT PUMPS Cause
84/C/G C
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
84/B/7 B
MISCELLANEOUS EVASIVE MANEUVER TO AVOID COLLISION

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 4311. Source file NTSB_1967_3_4311.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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