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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA78DYK14

1978-04-16 MEDFORD, Oregon, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2434Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 206H

Year of manufacture

2000

Engine

LYCOMING IO-540 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20000105

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A23E1F

Registrant of record

TVPX AIRCRAFT SOLUTIONS INC TRUSTEE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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 172 · N2434Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

BEAGLE SKY RANCH

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

270° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017249734

Total time

1,958 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,117

Age

38

Investigator remarks

ONE WAY STRIP DUE OBSTRUCTIONS. GUSTING TO 20K.

Cause factors

  • 66/C/45 C
    DUAL STUDENT Cause
  • 64/C/30 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause
  • 64/B/07 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND
  • 82/K/M K
    WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS Joint factor
  • 83/K/I K
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor
  • 88/K/DH K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY 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 0690. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0690.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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