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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA75DYE16

1974-08-18 SHELTON, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8390E Mooney M20A 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

MOONEY M20A · N8390E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

Z

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

SANDERSON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001568

Total time

1,700 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

673

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ALE,WASH NEXT DAY.

Investigator remarks

DMG TO L WG NOT NOTICED UNTIL ARRIVAL AT SILVERD

Cause factors

64/A/25 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF 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 3831. Source file NTSB_1974_3_3831.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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