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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA74FYE03

1973-07-13 RENTON, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5976P Piper PA-24 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

PIPER PA-24 · N5976P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

RENTON MUNICIPAL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

410

Age

48

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ONST AREA ADJ TO RWY.

Investigator remarks

PLT ALLOWED PSGR TO FOLLOW-THROUGH ON CONTROLS.C

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
64/C/30 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause
88/C/77 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTERFERENCE WITH FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
68/C/K4 C
PERSONNEL PASSENGER Cause
80/K/BY K
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER 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 2892. Source file NTSB_1973_3_2892.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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