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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA76DYI46

1976-06-26 WESTPORT, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N100YB

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 560XL

Seats / Engines

13 seats · 2 engines

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A006DC

Registrant of record

ENG CAPITAL LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N100YB Bell 206B 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

BELL 206B · N100YB

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 10 kt

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001892

Total time

170 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,935

Age

63

Cause factors

64/A/54 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/J/I J
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 1748. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1748.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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