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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA75DYA15

1974-08-29 MCCALL, Idaho, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3669Y Cessna 210C Minor

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

CESSNA 210C · N3669Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

MCCALL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

190° / 5 kt

Temp

78° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000021058169

Total time

1,127 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

425

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TY ALT ABT 7300FT.

Investigator remarks

ARPT CLOSED.TOOK OFF FROM TXWY 1500FT LONG.DENSI

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/J/80 J
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND Joint cause
82/J/W J
WEATHER HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE Joint cause
88/1/AW 1
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 1

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 3793. Source file NTSB_1974_3_3793.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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