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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA75DYG30

1975-04-17 PASCO, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8365 Grumman G-164A 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

GRUMMAN G-164A · N8365

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DH

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000860

Total time

810 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

389

Age

34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LNDED ON FOAMED RNWY & NOSED OVER.

Investigator remarks

HIT BANK SPRAYING.SEPARATED GEAR.FLEW TO ARPT &

Cause factors

64/C/54 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
88/K/49 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT 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 2840. Source file NTSB_1975_3_2840.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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