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Event SEA77FYE12

1977-03-19 OLYMPIA, Washington, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6526D N.AMERICAN P-51D Fatal

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

N.AMERICAN P-51D · N6526D

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

OLYMPIA MUNICIPAL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

250° / 8 kt

Temp

51° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000044-73415

Total time

1,095 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

7,100

Age

55

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CTLS UNKNOWN.

Investigator remarks

PARTIALLY COMPLETED DUAL CTL MODIFICATION.PLT AT

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED
88/L/AD L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS UNAPPROVED MODIFICATION

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 1391. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1391.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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