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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA73AS006

1972-09-10 GRANTS PASS, Oregon, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N29719

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

TAYLORCRAFT BC12-65

Year of manufacture

1941 · 31 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR A&C65 SERIES (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19570509

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A31218

Registrant of record

DERENDINGER MICHAEL L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N29719 Taylorcraft BC1265 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

TAYLORCRAFT BC1265 · N29719

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B2

Operator type

D

Airport

JOSEPHINE COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 6 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002566

Total time

1,932 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

250

Age

42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

D BRAKE KNOWN DEFECTIVE.RUNAWAY ACFT HIT 2 OBS.

Investigator remarks

PLT PROPPED ACFT WITH NO CHOCKS OR TIE DOWNS.HAN

Cause factors

64/A/37 A
PILOT IN COMMAND STARTED ENGINE WITHOUT PROPER ASSISTANCE/EQUIPMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/J/01 J
PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION W/KNOWN DEFICIENCIES IN EQUIPMENT 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 1515. Source file NTSB_1972_3_1515.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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