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Event SEA78FA024

1978-04-07 SODA SPRINGS, Idaho, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N78AE

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CIRRUS DESIGN SR22T

Year of manufacture

2014

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-550-K (315 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20140730

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA8E32

Registrant of record

FIRST TO THE ALTERNATE II LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N78AE LEAR JET 24D 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

LEAR JET 24D · N78AE

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Business

Airport

SODA SPRINGS MUNI

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 3 kt

Temp

44° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000267

Total time

2,850 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

7,000

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

T FM RUNWAY.AIRPORT WARNING SIGN 1 MILE FM RUNWAY.

Investigator remarks

COLLIDED WITH TRACTOR-TRAILER TRUCK.HIGHWAY 70 F

Cause factors

64/A/15 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
80/J/A9 J
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER Joint cause
68/J/K5 J
PERSONNEL DRIVER OF VEHICLE 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 0546. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0546.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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