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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA76AS015

1975-08-28 BELLEVUE, Washington, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7478E

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING 747-8

Year of manufacture

2012

Engine

GE GENX-2B67

Seats / Engines

467 seats · 4 engines

Last airworthiness date

20260118

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA1000

Registrant of record

TVPX AIRCRAFT SOLUTIONS INC TRUSTEE

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 210 · N7478E

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

BELLEVUE

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

210° / 10 kt

Temp

57° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000057178

Total time

1,690 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,104

Age

53

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

.

Investigator remarks

RESIDENTIAL AREA.STRUCK TREES,THEN GARAGE & AUTO

Cause factors

  • 64/C/32 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
  • 88/C/96 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
  • 83/K/I K
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor
  • 74/L/J2 L
    POWERPLANT FUEL QUANTITY GAUGE
  • 88/L/BR L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ERRATIC

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 2439. Source file NTSB_1975_3_2439.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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