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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA67D0330

1967-05-19 PALOUSE, Washington, United States None 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 PA-25 · N6807Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,160 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,500

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NO WIND CONDITION.

Investigator remarks

ACFT STRUCK HILL AT END OF RNWY. NEAR GROSS WT,

Cause factors

  • 64/A/35 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 80/J/BL J
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SOFT RUNWAY Joint cause

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 1647. Source file NTSB_1967_3_1647.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.