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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA78DYE40

1978-09-29 EATONVILLE, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N70405 Cessna 172M 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 172M · N70405

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

SWANSON

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

225° / 3 kt

Temp

62° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017267214

Total time

916 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

913

Age

25

Cause factors

66/C/46 C
DUAL STUDENT Cause
66/C/82 C
DUAL STUDENT Cause
64/C/30 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause
80/L/BA L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES WET RUNWAY
88/K/DH K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY Joint factor
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 2643. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2643.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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