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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA77DYE31

1977-08-05 BELLEVUE, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9155W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-235

Year of manufacture

1966 · 11 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-540 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19661214

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ACAC5A

Registrant of record

WIGER THEODORE L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9155W Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N9155W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

BELLEVUE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000028-10787

Total time

2,009 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

274

Age

30

Investigator remarks

ALLOWED FLAPS TO RETRACT,SETTLED.

Cause factors

64/C/23 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
64/C/71 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISUSED OR FAILED TO USE FLAPS 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 1680. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1680.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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