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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA67F0248

1967-02-12 BELLEVUE, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3498M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-12

Year of manufacture

1947 · 20 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3E239

Registrant of record

SEAVOY ROGER J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3498M Piper PA-12 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-12 · N3498M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Total time

2,103 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,750

Age

25

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ON A GOLF COURSE.

Investigator remarks

POWER FAILED DURING SLOW FLIGHT PRACTICE.LANDED

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
82/L/B L
WEATHER RAIN
82/L/G L
WEATHER CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO CARB./INDUCTION SYSTEM ICING
88/L/AQ L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND

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 0418. Source file NTSB_1967_3_0418.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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