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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA77DYP27

1977-05-29 WATERVILLE, Washington, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N19FZ

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SCHLEICHER ASW-19

Year of manufacture

1976 · 1 years old at event

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19790110

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A16667

Registrant of record

TAGLIANI JAMES M

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N19FZ Schleicher ASW-19 Minor

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

SCHLEICHER ASW-19 · N19FZ

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

DF

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

300° / — kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000019020

Total time

134 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,814

Age

41

Investigator remarks

LOST THERMAL ACTIVITY.LNDD IN FLD.

Cause factors

64/A/23 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/25 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 1684. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1684.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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