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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA78FA030

1978-05-09 OLYMPIA, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N19Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

LANCAIR LANCAIR LEGACY 2000

Year of manufacture

2003

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-550 SERIES (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20030606

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A167F8

Registrant of record

DOMINION AIR LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N19Y Beech B90 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

BEECH B90 · N19Y

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

A1

Operator type

Business

Airport

OLYMPIA MUNICIPAL

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

230° / 8 kt

Temp

58° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000LJ-331

Total time

8,476 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

13,200

Age

52

Investigator remarks

BYSTANDER WALKED INTO PROP. BLOOD ALCOHOL 0.235%

Cause factors

68/A/K9 A
PERSONNEL OTHER Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/67 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ALCOHOLIC IMPAIRMENT OF EFFICIENCY AND JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 0818. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0818.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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