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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA77DYA36

1977-09-20 DUBOIS, Idaho, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N46683 Cessna 180J 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 180J · N46683

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Business

Airport

KATSEANES FARM

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

180° / 12 kt

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018052432

Total time

1,860 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

7,313

Age

39

Investigator remarks

LDG ON ROAD,HIT PWR LINES.

Cause factors

64/C/15 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS Cause
83/L/I L
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS

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 2888. Source file NTSB_1977_3_2888.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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