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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA77FYM24

1977-03-29 BEAVERTON, Oregon, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N110VE

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 414A

Year of manufacture

1977 · 0 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-520 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

8 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19971106

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A02E13

Registrant of record

HORIZON GROUP INC TRUSTEE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N110VE Enstrom 280C Serious

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

ENSTROM 280C · N110VE

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EH

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

315° / 12 kt

Temp

54° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001061

Total time

145 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

42

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

DALS,RPM INCREASED,REMAINED HIGH IN DESCENT.

Investigator remarks

PLT DESCRIBED HI-FREQ VIBRATION IN CYCLIC AND PE

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED 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 1134. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1134.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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