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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA75DYG14

1974-11-28 LEWISTON, Idaho, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3589Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182F

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19621205

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4062F

Registrant of record

ELE MOTOTSPORTS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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 182 · N3589Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

30° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018254489

Total time

2,648 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

463

Age

37

Investigator remarks

PROP SEPARATED IN FLT.

Cause factors

  • 74/C/FA C
    POWERPLANT BLADES Cause
  • 88/C/36 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause
  • 88/L/CV L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS VIBRATION,EXCESSIVE
  • 83/K/I K
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor
  • 88/L/49 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT

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 4323. Source file NTSB_1974_3_4323.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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