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Event SEA72DYI21

1972-04-25 NORTH BEND, Oregon, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N84196 Cessna 172K Minor

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

CESSNA 172K · N84196

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

NORTH BEND

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017258375

Total time

1,366 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

199

Age

32

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CRASHED ON MOVING TRUCK ON U.S.HIGHWAY 101.

Investigator remarks

PLT FAILED TO MONITOR ALTIMETER.OVER WATER APCH.

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
88/C/11 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INSTRUMENTS-MISREAD OR FAILED TO READ Cause
83/J/I J
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 1565. Source file NTSB_1972_3_1565.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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