Skip to content

Atlas / NTSB / SEA78DYP07

NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA78DYP07

1978-01-19 MEAD, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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 152 · N25029

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

MEAD

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Temp

34° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015280506

Total time

43 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,661

Age

57

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LDG.

Investigator remarks

T/D IN SNOW DRG GO AROUND FROM SIMULATED FORCED

Cause factors

  • 64/A/53 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/07 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 80/J/BC J
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW ON RUNWAY Joint cause
  • 88/J/85 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED 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 0259. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0259.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.