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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA76AS044

1976-04-21 ROSEBURG, Oregon, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N10081 Cessna 177B 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

CESSNA 177B · N10081

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D9

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017702313

Total time

318 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

179

Age

42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

DY IN ACCDT AREA. RECOVERY DATE 4/24/76.

Investigator remarks

BOTH WGS & TAIL SECTION FAILED. WEA RPTD AS CLOU

Cause factors

64/A/66 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SPATIAL DISORIENTATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/09 A
PILOT IN COMMAND EXCEEDED DESIGNED STRESS LIMITS OF AIRCRAFT Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/94 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 1028. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1028.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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