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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA74DYC26

1973-12-01 PORTLAND, Oregon, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N76006

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 140

Year of manufacture

1946 · 27 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C85 SERIES (85 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560714

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA43FF

Registrant of record

MILLER JOSEPH A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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 140 · N76006

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

PORTLAND INTL

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

180° / 12 kt

Temp

52° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000010400

Total time

2,194 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

49

Age

52

Investigator remarks

GUSTING TO 15K.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/79 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
  • 64/C/22 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
  • 82/C/H C
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Cause
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 4140. Source file NTSB_1973_3_4140.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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