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Event SEA76FYG54

1976-06-05 EPHRATA, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3460 LET-NP-K L-13 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

LET-NP-K L-13 · N3460

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

EPHRATA

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000173930

Total time

1,148 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

19

Age

18

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AFTS IN AREA.

Investigator remarks

DEPLOYED SPOILER STRUCK DIESEL GENERATOR. DOWNDR

Cause factors

64/A/54 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/M J
WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS 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 1354. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1354.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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