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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA74DYE21

1973-10-18 BELLEVUE, Washington, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N15627 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 · N15627

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

BELLEVUE

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

230° / 10 kt

Temp

66° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-7325118

Total time

757 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

29

Age

17

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

A-22 N7212D,SUB DMG.

Investigator remarks

PARKED ACFT - HUGHES 500C N9117F SUB DMG,PIPER P

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
88/L/91 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS TOUCH AND GO LANDING

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 3596. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3596.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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