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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA76FYC31

1976-02-18 SANDY, Oregon, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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 150L · N19426

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000150-74414

Total time

1,996 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

40

Age

20

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

E BECAME ILL.

Investigator remarks

REASON FOR LANDING ATTEMPT UNKNOWN. PLT STATED H

Cause factors

  • 64/C/46 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
  • 64/C/65 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENT Cause
  • 83/K/A K
    TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND Joint factor

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 0608. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0608.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.