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Event SEA71FYC36

1971-04-25 SANDY, Oregon, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N96324

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

TAYLORCRAFT BC12-D

Year of manufacture

1946 · 25 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR A&C65 SERIES (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19561003

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD6A06

Registrant of record

BARTLETT DAVID Q

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N96324 Taylorcraft BC12-D 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

TAYLORCRAFT BC12-D · N96324

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

RICH'S

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000008624

Total time

845 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

172

Age

32

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OF WATER DRAINED FROM CARBURETOR FLOAT CHAMBER

Investigator remarks

WATER FOUND IN GLASS SEDIMENT BOWL.APRX 1/3 CUP

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/87 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WATER IN FUEL Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN

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 1347. Source file NTSB_1971_3_1347.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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