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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA72AS002

1971-07-16 SUCIA ISLAND, Washington, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N96216

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

TAYLORCRAFT BC12-D

Year of manufacture

1946 · 25 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C85 SERIES (85 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19640723

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD662E

Registrant of record

PORT TOWNSEND AERO MUSEUM

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N96216 Taylorcraft BCS12D 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

TAYLORCRAFT BCS12D · N96216

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

ORCAS ISLAND

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000008516

Total time

3,002 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

172

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

. PAX WALKED INTO ROTATING PROP. PAX WASNT WARNED.

Investigator remarks

PLT ALLOWED PAX TO DEPLANE ON FLOAT TO MOOR ACFT

Cause factors

64/A/33 A
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 1304. Source file NTSB_1971_3_1304.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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