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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA75AS030

1975-02-05 HILLSBORO, Oregon, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5250X Bellanca 7KCAB 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 7KCAB · N5250X

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D7

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

050° / 33 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000224

Total time

739 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

832

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

D OPENING,R DOOR STUCK.

Investigator remarks

R WING SEPARATED.CO-PLT EVACUATED THRU WINDSHIEL

Cause factors

70/A/AA A
AIRFRAME SPARS Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/A/AD A
AIRFRAME BRACING WIRES,STRUTS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/94 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/49 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT 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 1421. Source file NTSB_1975_3_1421.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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