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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA77FYA04

1976-10-24 BOISE, Idaho, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2787Z Schweizer SGU222 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

SCHWEIZER SGU222 · N2787Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

GLIDER AIR PARK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000213

Total time

1,672 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

58

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NTED MOVEMENT OF CONTROLS.

Investigator remarks

TKOF ABORTED. POWER FAILURE OF WINCH. PSGR PREVE

Cause factors

68/A/K4 A
PERSONNEL PASSENGER Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/77 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTERFERENCE WITH FLIGHT CONTROLS 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 3272. Source file NTSB_1976_3_3272.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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