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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA66D0196

1966-01-02 OLYMPIA, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N50942 Piper PA-22 None

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-22 · N50942

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

180° / 15 kt

Temp

35° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,905 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

68

Age

45

Cause factors

88/C/72 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ICE-CARBURETOR Cause
88/C/02 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ANTI-ICING/DEICING EQUIPMENT-IMPROPER OPERATION OF/OR FAILED TO USE Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 0154. Source file NTSB_1966_3_0154.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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