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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA74DYG11

1973-08-26 OROFINO, Idaho, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N74450

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELLANCA 14-13-2

Year of manufacture

1947 · 26 years old at event

Engine

FRANKLIN 6A4150 SERIES (150 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19571104

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA0486

Registrant of record

NUTTER MICHAEL S

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N74450 Bellanca 14-193 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

BELLANCA 14-193 · N74450

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

OROFINO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001563

Total time

1,173 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

284

Age

45

Investigator remarks

STRUCK GRND DRG RECOVERY ATTMPT.

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/22 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH 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 3157. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3157.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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