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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA71AS039

1971-03-12 SNOHOMISH, Washington, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7508E Aeronca 7FC 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

AERONCA 7FC · N7508E

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

HARVEY

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000228

Total time

3,045 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

549

Age

24

Investigator remarks

SIMULATED ENGINE FAILURE.

Cause factors

88/C/85 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS Cause
66/B/16 B
DUAL STUDENT
64/B/30 B
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT

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 0268. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0268.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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