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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA78DYE22

1978-05-03 ARLINGTON, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N93272

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA A185F

Year of manufacture

1976 · 2 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19761209

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ACF07F

Registrant of record

GROSSMAN MARC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N93272 Cessna 185F 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

CESSNA 185F · N93272

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

ARLINGTON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

280° / 5 kt

Temp

45° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018503206

Total time

971 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

121

Age

31

Investigator remarks

GUSTING TO 30K. DMGD WG.

Cause factors

64/A/22 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/H J
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 1045. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1045.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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