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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA74FYG40

1974-05-19 MEAD, Washington, United States Serious 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 SPCL S-1C Serious

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 SPCL S-1C · N5S

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

MEAD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

010° / 9 kt

Temp

50° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Total time

115 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

3,400

Age

45

Investigator remarks

DOWNDRAFT. GUSTING TO 13K.

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
88/L/22 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH
82/L/M L
WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 1898. Source file NTSB_1974_3_1898.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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