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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA72AS047

1972-04-22 MEAD, Washington, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2218E Aeronca 7AC 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 7AC · N2218E

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

MEAD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

210° / 7 kt

Temp

33° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000005792

Total time

2,072 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

200

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LEVEL FLT AND ANIMAL SPOTTING.NO WITNESSES FOUND.

Investigator remarks

PLTS LOG BOOK CONTAINED NUMEROUS ENTRIES OF LOW

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/1/34 1
PILOT IN COMMAND OPERATED CARELESSLY Subordinate · 1
88/1/14 1
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS UNWARRANTED LOW FLYING Subordinate · 1

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 0684. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0684.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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