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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA78FA060

1978-09-03 MCCALL, Idaho, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N88185 Piper J3C 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

PIPER J3C · N88185

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

68° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000015802

Total time

3,058 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,879

Age

52

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

IP PULLED OFF FOUND LYING ON FRONT FLOORBOARD.

Investigator remarks

AUTOPSY SHOWED PAX HAD HEART ATTACK.HIS STICK GR

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/88 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER 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 2634. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2634.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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