NTSB CAROL · Event
Event SEA77FA056
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 206 · N35904
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
OBSCURATION
Wind
130° / 16 kt
Temp
42° F
Aircraft history
Serial number
000U20602790
Total time
556 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
418
Age
40
Cause factors
- 64/A/40 A PILOT IN COMMAND INITIATED FLIGHT IN ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 64/J/27 J PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING Joint cause
- 82/J/A J WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
- 82/J/B J WEATHER RAIN Joint cause
- 83/J/I J TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint 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 2782.
Source file
NTSB_1977_3_2782.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
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- NASA NTRS 2019 · Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
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- NASA NTRS 2010 · Abstract
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