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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA75KYI18

1974-12-06 NORTH BEND, Oregon, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N104RE Piper PA-31P Serious

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

PIPER PA-31P · N104RE

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

NORTH BEND

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

210° / 30 kt

Temp

58° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

031P-7400199

Total time

565 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,380

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ENNA ON GO ARND.GUSTING TO 30K.

Investigator remarks

PLT MADE ILS,CIRCLED,LND DOWNWIND.STRUCK ILS ANT

Cause factors

64/C/80 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND Cause
64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/C/07 C
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause
80/L/BA L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES WET RUNWAY
82/L/B L
WEATHER RAIN
88/L/62 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PILOT FATIGUE

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 3814. Source file NTSB_1974_3_3814.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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