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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA78DYP27

1978-05-20 DEER PARK, 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 170 · N5569C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

DEER PARK

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000019622

Total time

2,889 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

24

Age

31

Investigator remarks

GUSTING TO 30K.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/02 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION BEYOND EXPERIENCE/ABILITY LEVEL Cause
  • 64/C/79 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
  • 82/C/H C
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Cause
  • 68/L/C0 L
    PERSONNEL INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT

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 1250. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1250.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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