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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA70DXM11

1970-04-09 SALMON, Idaho, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1370A Piper PA-18 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-18 · N1370A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

SALMON MUNI

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

220° / 18 kt

Temp

48° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000018-1200

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

15

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TD OFF RWY APRX 50FT.

Investigator remarks

WND CALM BGNG OF FLT,SUDDEN INCR,GUSTING 25K.DRF

Cause factors

68/A/C0 A
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/A/H A
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 1811. Source file NTSB_1970_3_1811.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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