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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA76DYG45

1976-04-22 KENNEWICK, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N58978 Boeing E75N1 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

BOEING E75N1 · N58978

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

225° / 3 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Total time

1,980 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,879

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

VERTURNED.

Investigator remarks

TKOF FM COUNTY ROAD.SPRAY BOOM STRUCK GND,ACFT O

Cause factors

64/C/35 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
83/L/Y L
TERRAIN OTHER

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 0976. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0976.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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