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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA78DYE18

1978-04-23 BREMERTON, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8136K Stinson 108-1 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

STINSON 108-1 · N8136K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

KITSAP COUNTY

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

030° / 6 kt

Temp

49° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000108-1136

Total time

2,283 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

775

Age

40

Investigator remarks

HIT TREE,CONT FLT & LND OK.

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
88/L/22 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor

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 0551. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0551.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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