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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA77DYA07

1976-10-27 CHALLIS, Idaho, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8231M Cessna T210K 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 T210K · N8231M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000T21059231

Total time

1,523 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

3,073

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

& TOOK OFF.

Investigator remarks

LND IN FLD DUE FUEL CONTAMINATION. DRAINED SUMPS

Cause factors

64/A/54 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/J/29 J
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Joint cause
88/J/87 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WATER IN FUEL Joint cause
83/J/Y J
TERRAIN 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 3608. Source file NTSB_1976_3_3608.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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