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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA71AS019

1970-09-26 SKYKOMISH, Washington, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9056H Howard DGA15P Fatal

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

HOWARD DGA15P · N9056H

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EY

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000965

Total time

1,754 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

260

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

MTNS,SLOPES BOTH SIDES.ACFT RCVRD 9/27/70.

Investigator remarks

CRASHED INTO NARROW MTN LAKE DRG LDG ATMT.STEEP

Cause factors

64/A/02 A
PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION BEYOND EXPERIENCE/ABILITY LEVEL Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/A/M A
WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/88 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint cause

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 2744. Source file NTSB_1970_3_2744.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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