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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA76AS027

1975-11-19 PORT ORCHARD, Washington, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5085T Beech 19A Fatal

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

BEECH 19A · N5085T

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

PORT ORCHARD

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

360° / — kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000MB340

Total time

5,789 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,412

Age

26

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ING.NEEDLE VALVE STUCK CLOSED.

Investigator remarks

POSITIVE FLOAT RETRACTION NEEDLE VALVE CLIP MISS

Cause factors

74/C/CG C
POWERPLANT CARBURETOR Cause
88/C/CS C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS STUCK Cause
88/C/90 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MISSING Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION 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 3704. Source file NTSB_1975_3_3704.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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