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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA77DYA18

1977-05-01 CHALLIS, Idaho, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3158Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

VAN'S AIRCRAFT RV-6A

Year of manufacture

2008

Engine

MATTITUCK TMX 360 (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20081018

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A35CEB

Registrant of record

VELEZ JOSE F

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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 182 · N3158Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

FALCONBERRY

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

290° / 10 kt

Temp

55° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018254158

Total time

2,680 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,104

Age

26

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CABLE.

Investigator remarks

PLT REPORTS BOLT MISSING AT CARB END OF THROTTLE

Cause factors

  • 84/A/I A
    MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 80/J/BA J
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES WET RUNWAY Joint cause
  • 82/J/J J
    WEATHER SUDDEN WINDSHIFT Joint cause
  • 88/J/DH J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY 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 1130. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1130.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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