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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA76FYC35

1976-03-07 VANCOUVER, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4042B DEHAVILLAND DH-104 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

DEHAVILLAND DH-104 · N4042B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

Business

Airport

PEARSON AIRPARK

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

52° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000004329

Total time

4,430 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,500

Age

36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

,R BRAKE.HIT HANGAR.ACFT HAD NO NOSE WHEEL STEERNG

Investigator remarks

UN ACCOMPLISH TAXI TURN DUE RUPTURED AIR BLADDER

Cause factors

68/A/D5 A
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE INSPECTION OF AIRCRAFT (OWNER-PILOT) Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/A/CJ A
AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM) Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/BQ A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS EXCESSIVE-WEAR/PLAY Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/CI A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERHEATED Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/AJ A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LEAK/LEAKAGE Cause — pilot/personnel action
80/J/BY J
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER 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 0658. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0658.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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