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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA72FYG01

1971-07-13 ROYAL CITY, Washington, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8879Q

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING 737-8

Year of manufacture

2023

TCDS

A16WE · BOEING

Engine

CFM INTL LEAP-1B28 SER

Seats / Engines

175 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20230613

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC3B78

Registrant of record

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8879Q Snow S2R 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

SNOW S2R · N8879Q

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DK

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000001479R

Total time

575 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,000

Age

42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

WHEN L WING DROPPED.

Investigator remarks

WITNESS SAID PILOT IN LEFT PROCEDURE TURNAROUND

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED 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 0769. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0769.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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