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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA71DWA10

1970-08-07 WALDPORT, Oregon, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5718P Piper PA-24 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-24 · N5718P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

WAKONDA BEACH

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

180° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000024-792

Total time

2,660 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

124

Age

45

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LVLD OFF HI,RETRACTED FLAPS ACFT HIT ON NOSE GR.

Investigator remarks

APCH MADE OVR 50FT HI WIRES TO 1950FT STRIP.PLT

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
64/C/71 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISUSED OR FAILED TO USE FLAPS Cause
83/L/I L
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS
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 3383. Source file NTSB_1970_3_3383.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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