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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA78DYP06

1977-12-15 PASCO, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9021H

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AIRBUS A319-115

Year of manufacture

2014

TCDS

A28NM · AIRBUS SAS

Engine

CFM INTL CFM56-5B7

Seats / Engines

147 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20140929

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC791D

Registrant of record

UMB BANK NA 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 · N9021H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B0

Operator type

D

Airport

TRI-CITIES

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

210° / 35 kt

Temp

29° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017265904

Total time

800 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

289

Age

25

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ING TO 45KTS.

Investigator remarks

TWR ADVISED PLT OF WIND PRIOR TO TAXI.35KTS GUST

Cause factors

  • 64/A/33 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/02 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION BEYOND EXPERIENCE/ABILITY LEVEL 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 3802. Source file NTSB_1977_3_3802.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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