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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA70FXM20

1970-06-19 BOISE, Idaho, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7026C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GRUMMAN HU-16

Year of manufacture

1951 · 19 years old at event

Engine

WRIGHT R-1820-76D (1425 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20250418

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A95F29

Registrant of record

TRI-STATE WARBIRD MUSEUM

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

GRUMMAN TBM · N7026C

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

BOISE

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

320° / 7 kt

Temp

79° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000069294

Total time

2,461 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,203

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

X 75 FT AGL.

Investigator remarks

PLT,PARACHUTE EQUIPPED,JUMPED OUT OF ACFT AT APR

Cause factors

  • 84/C/I C
    MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause
  • 88/L/51 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN ENGINE

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 0896. Source file NTSB_1970_3_0896.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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