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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA74FYG17

1973-09-09 SPOKANE, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5S

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

LANCAIR LEGACY L2K 177

Year of manufacture

2006

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-550 SERIES (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20060103

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A636CE

Registrant of record

STERLING DAVID M

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5S Pitts S-1C 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

PITTS S-1C · N5S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

FELTS FIELD

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000BBC-1

Total time

102 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,716

Age

42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

F LWR L WG. L BRAKE INOP.

Investigator remarks

L WG TIP HIT RWY DURNG GRND LOOP. DMGD MN SPAR O

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
68/L/D6 L
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION
70/L/CJ L
AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM)
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 4042. Source file NTSB_1973_3_4042.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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