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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA70D0030

1969-07-23 MINIDOKA, Idaho, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5270

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING B1E

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6A547

Registrant of record

BLAIS KEN

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5270 Grumman G-164 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

GRUMMAN G-164 · N5270

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

249 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

6,200

Age

40

Investigator remarks

T/O FROM ROAD.

Cause factors

64/A/54 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE 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 2312. Source file NTSB_1969_3_2312.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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