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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA73DYA01

1972-07-09 IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5132N

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING B75N1

Year of manufacture

1943 · 29 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING R680 (215 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19950911

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A66F3F

Registrant of record

COULTER RONALD F

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5132N Boeing B75N1 None

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

BOEING B75N1 · N5132N

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

AG STRIP

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 7 kt

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000075-7503

Total time

2,716 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

6,000

Age

28

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/J/A J
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND 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 2098. Source file NTSB_1972_3_2098.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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