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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA77DYA37

1977-09-22 HAILEY, Idaho, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2231B Luscombe T8F 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

LUSCOMBE T8F · N2231B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

FRIEDMAN MEMORIAL

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

150° / 8 kt

Temp

46° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000006658

Total time

6,000 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

100

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

F FENCE DRG GO-ARND.

Investigator remarks

T/D HARD,SWERVED L THEN R.HIT TAILWHEEL ON TOP O

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
64/B/22 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS
64/B/07 B
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND
64/L/80 L
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND
88/L/AQ L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor
64/L/31 L
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT

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 3092. Source file NTSB_1977_3_3092.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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