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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA70D0133

1969-10-04 EASTON, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1582

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SCHEMPP-HIRTH SHK1

Year of manufacture

1966 · 3 years old at event

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19680402

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0EA85

Registrant of record

LEONARD RONALD A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

SCHEMP SHK-1 · N1582

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

D

Airport

EASTON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

045° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

221

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PILOT-LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH RELEASE AREA.

Investigator remarks

AFT RELEASE,GLIDER ENCOUNTERED SEVERE DOWNDRAFTS

Cause factors

  • 82/A/M A
    WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 84/A/J A
    MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE 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 4124. Source file NTSB_1969_3_4124.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.