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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA73ASO08

1972-10-04 PORTLAND, Oregon, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8320J

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING 737-8H4

Year of manufacture

2012

TCDS

A16WE · THE BOEING CO

Engine

CFM INTL CFM56-7B27E

Seats / Engines

143 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20120828

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB6229

Registrant of record

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8320J Cessna 150G 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

CESSNA 150G · N8320J

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000150-66220

Total time

3,170 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,502

Age

53

Investigator remarks

DIVED ACFT INTO COLUMBIA RIVER.

Cause factors

64/A/67 A
PILOT IN COMMAND PSYCHOLOGICAL CONDITION Cause — pilot/personnel action
84/A/A A
MISCELLANEOUS SUICIDE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/88 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER 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 3636. Source file NTSB_1972_3_3636.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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