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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA70D0040

1969-08-17 COLVILLE, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N21223

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

TAYLORCRAFT BC-65

Year of manufacture

1938 · 31 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR A&C65 SERIES (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560205

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1C3AA

Registrant of record

COLVIN CLU DBA

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N21223 Taylorcraft BC-65 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

TAYLORCRAFT BC-65 · N21223

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

COLVILLE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

2,458 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

180

Age

24

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 2361. Source file NTSB_1969_3_2361.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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