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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA78DYP18

1978-03-10 TEKOA, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7672Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-30

Year of manufacture

1965 · 13 years old at event

TCDS

A1EA · PIPER AIRCRAFT INC

Engine

LYCOMING IO-320 SERIES (150 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19650224

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA5E3E

Registrant of record

BERTRAND JASON

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7672Y Piper PA-30 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

PIPER PA-30 · N7672Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

WILLARD

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000030-750

Total time

2,775 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,194

Age

25

Cause factors

66/C/46 C
DUAL STUDENT Cause
64/C/82 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause
64/C/30 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause
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 0694. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0694.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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