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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA73DYG34

1973-05-27 EPHRATA, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N245F

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GLASFLUGEL H 301 LIBELLE

Year of manufacture

1967 · 6 years old at event

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19680816

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2430F

Registrant of record

FORNEY JAMES C

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N245F Glasflugel H301B 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

GLASFLUGEL H301B · N245F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

EPHRATA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

013° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000034

Total time

350 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,418

Age

54

Investigator remarks

AT ABT 50FT PLT PICKED ANOTHER FLD FOR LDG.

Cause factors

64/C/33 C
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause
64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE 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 2273. Source file NTSB_1973_3_2273.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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