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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA71FWG34

1970-12-04 PASCO, Washington, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5325L Piper PA-28 Minor

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-28 · N5325L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

TRI-CITIES

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Temp

40° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000028-4628

Total time

1,616 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

33

Age

43

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
88/3/72 3
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ICE-CARBURETOR Subordinate · 3

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 4334. Source file NTSB_1970_3_4334.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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