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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA71DTI39

1971-06-13 CHINOOK, Montana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2216B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

LUSCOMBE T-8F

Year of manufacture

1949 · 22 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C90 SERIES (95 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19570109

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1E7E4

Registrant of record

GRASS BRIAN S

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2216B Luscombe T-8F 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

LUSCOMBE T-8F · N2216B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

CHINOOK

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000006643

Total time

728 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,250

Age

45

Investigator remarks

LANDED ON SOFT FLD ADJ TO RANCH.

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/J/A J
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND 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 2009. Source file NTSB_1971_3_2009.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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