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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA73DYA19

1973-02-25 HAILEY, Idaho, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N509FW DEHAVILLAND DH114 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

DEHAVILLAND DH114 · N509FW

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

A4

Operator type

E

Airport

FRIEDMAN MEMORIAL

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000014066

Total time

8,135 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,223

Age

35

Investigator remarks

GAS TRUCK BACKED INTO ACFT.

Cause factors

68/A/K5 A
PERSONNEL DRIVER OF VEHICLE Cause — pilot/personnel action
84/A/D A
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN OBJECT DAMAGE 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 0233. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0233.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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