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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA75DYG19

1975-02-02 COLVILLE, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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 172 · N7230A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

COLVILLE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000029330

Total time

3,786 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

114

Age

60

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

D TRYING TO RET TO RWY.

Investigator remarks

PLT LINED UP WITH SNOWBANK ON SIDE OF RWY.STALLE

Cause factors

  • 64/A/82 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/78 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WHITEOUT Joint cause
  • 88/J/13 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS NOT ALIGNED WITH RUNWAY/INTENDED LANDING AREA Joint cause
  • 80/J/BY J
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER Joint cause

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 0331. Source file NTSB_1975_3_0331.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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