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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA75DYE29

1975-01-01 LYNDEN, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8301A

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 170B

Year of manufacture

1952 · 23 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C145 SERIES (145 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560718

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB5AD6

Registrant of record

FRAZER WENDY J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8301A Cessna 170B 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

CESSNA 170B · N8301A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

NW AERO SPORTS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000025153

Total time

3,891 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

304

Age

24

Investigator remarks

LND ON NARROW SOFT RWY & RAN INTO DITCH.

Cause factors

64/C/35 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
80/L/BK L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES POORLY MAINTAINED RUNWAY SURFACE
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 0153. Source file NTSB_1975_3_0153.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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