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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA66F0052

1965-07-10 SUNNYSIDE, Washington, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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 PA18A · N7573D

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DJ

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

58° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,088 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

850

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PILOT-TOXIC POISON IMPAIRED PHYSICAL EFFICIENCY

Investigator remarks

TOXIC SPRAY CHEMICAL PHOSDRIN BEING USED

Cause factors

  • 84/A/1 A
    MISCELLANEOUS VORTEX TURBULENCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 84/A/J A
    MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE 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 2 0512. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0512.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.