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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA65F0028

1965-03-03 BELLEVUE, Washington, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5545W Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N5545W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

BELLEVUE

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

72° F

Aircraft history

Total time

978 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

5,830

Age

51

Investigator remarks

THROTTLE CONTROL SHAFT STUCK.

Cause factors

74/C/I0 C
POWERPLANT THROTTLE-POWER LEVER ASSEMBLIES Cause
88/C/CS C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS STUCK Cause
68/A/D6 A
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION 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 0678. Source file NTSB_1965_3_0678.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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