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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA75AS001

1974-07-07 BREMERTON, Washington, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4852N Bellanca 14-132 Fatal

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 14-132 · N4852N

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

KITSAP COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

330° / 4 kt

Temp

64° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001573

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

5,313

Age

44

Investigator remarks

LOST CTL IN LOW ALT TURN.

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED
88/K/07 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER EMERGENCY PROCEDURES 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 3221. Source file NTSB_1974_3_3221.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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