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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA78FA050

1978-07-30 LYNDEN, Washington, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6735F Cessna 150F Fatal

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 150F · N6735F

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

LYNDEN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

260° / 10 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00150-63-335

Total time

5,509 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

115

Age

55

Investigator remarks

ATTMPTD GO-AROUND WITH CARB HEAT ON.

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/B/07 B
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND
64/K/21 K
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Joint factor
88/K/21 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PREMATURE FLAP RETRACTION Joint factor
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 2404. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2404.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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