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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA73FYG31

1973-05-15 MOSES LAKE, Washington, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4041B DEHAVILLAND DH104 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

DEHAVILLAND DH104 · N4041B

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

MOSES LAKE

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

135° / 7 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000004385

Total time

4,623 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

2,795

Age

32

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RAISE GR.FLAPS WERE RETRACTED.UN MAINTAIN FLT.

Investigator remarks

L ENG LOST PWR.PLT CONT TKOF,DIDNT FEATH PROP OR

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED
64/B/20 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC.
64/K/71 K
PILOT IN COMMAND MISUSED OR FAILED TO USE FLAPS Joint factor
88/K/07 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER EMERGENCY PROCEDURES Joint factor

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 1179. Source file NTSB_1973_3_1179.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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