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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA78DYE35

1978-08-13 ISSAQUAH, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9244Z LET-NP-K L-13 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

LET-NP-K L-13 · N9244Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

SKYPORT

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

360° / 5 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000026503

Total time

572 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

468

Age

33

Investigator remarks

MISUSED SPOILERS. LND IN ROCKS.

Cause factors

64/C/20 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause
64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 1927. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1927.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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