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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA77DYE03

1976-11-06 SPANAWAY, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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 170 · N2620V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

SHADY ACRES

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000018130

Total time

4,388 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,171

Age

45

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OO LATE.GR COLLAPSED WHEN STRIKING RWY LIP.DUSK.

Investigator remarks

STUDENT PLT LOW ON APCH.IP TOOK OVER,ADDED PWR T

Cause factors

  • 66/C/48 C
    DUAL STUDENT Cause
  • 64/C/82 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause
  • 64/C/30 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause
  • 88/L/22 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 3525. Source file NTSB_1976_3_3525.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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