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Event SEA77FYC04

1976-11-04 PORTLAND, Oregon, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N77705

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

FUNK B85C

Year of manufacture

1946 · 30 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C85 SERIES (85 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19551103

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA857E

Registrant of record

ANDERSON DENNIS R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N77705 Funk B85C 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

FUNK B85C · N77705

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

D

Airport

TROH'S MEMORIAL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000336

Total time

1,925 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

IA (IA)

Total hours

86

Age

49

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

D IN CARB BOWL & FUEL STRAINER.UNCERTIFICATED PLT.

Investigator remarks

FOREIGN MATTER SUFFICIENT TO IMPEDE FUEL FLOW FN

Cause factors

84/C/G C
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS Cause
88/C/64 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL CONTAMINATION-EXCLUSIVE OF WATER IN FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/B/I B
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS

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 3518. Source file NTSB_1976_3_3518.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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