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Event SEA74DYE01

1973-07-01 BELLEVUE, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N56984 Piper PA-28 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-28 · N56984

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

BELLEVUE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

330° / 9 kt

Temp

69° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000028-26495

Total time

2,971 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,813

Age

48

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CCURD.5HRS DUAL BEFORE ACDNT.

Investigator remarks

ACFT DRIFTED R ONTO GRAVEL WHERE HEAVY BRAKING O

Cause factors

64/C/02 C
PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION BEYOND EXPERIENCE/ABILITY LEVEL Cause
64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/C/62 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING Cause
64/C/82 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause
64/B/79 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL
88/B/DF B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL GROUND-WATER-LOOP-SWERVE
88/L/AQ L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND
80/K/BY K
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER Joint factor
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 2959. Source file NTSB_1973_3_2959.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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