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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA77FA023

1977-03-30 EPHRATA, Washington, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N24012

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA U206F

Year of manufacture

1974 · 3 years old at event

TCDS

A4CE · TEXTRON AVIATION INC

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-550 SERIES (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20030606

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A23295

Registrant of record

GRUBBA GREGORY T

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N24012 Beech B19 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

BEECH B19 · N24012

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

190° / 5 kt

Temp

58° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000MB-826

Total time

189 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

6,475

Age

45

Investigator remarks

SPIN FM LOW ALT, RCVRY INCOMPLETE.

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 0869. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0869.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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