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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA76FYE29

1976-03-21 GRAHAM, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9280T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172S

Year of manufacture

2019

Engine

LYCOMING IO-360-L2A (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20191221

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ACDE4C

Registrant of record

CHRISTIANSEN AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9280T Cessna 180C 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

CESSNA 180C · N9280T

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Kind of flying

DG

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000050780

Total time

1,825 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,000

Age

60

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

STAB,PARTIAL SEP.ALL OCCUPANTS BAILED OUT OK.

Investigator remarks

RIPCORD CAUGHT ON DOOR.CHUTE DEPLOYED ARND HORIZ

Cause factors

68/C/K9 C
PERSONNEL OTHER Cause
76/C/CY C
INSTRUMENTS/EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES OTHER Cause
70/K/D3 K
AIRFRAME HORIZONTAL STABILIZER, ATTACHMENTS Joint factor
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 0619. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0619.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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