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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA78FYE03

1977-11-26 BELLEVUE, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2LB

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-18-150

Year of manufacture

1961 · 16 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19980601

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A18E4D

Registrant of record

SEMLER JASON S

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2LB Piper PA-18 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

PIPER PA-18 · N2LB

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

BELLEVUE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Total time

2,313 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

139

Age

17

Investigator remarks

2ND SOLO IN TAILWHEEL-EQUIPPED ACFT.

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
64/C/31 C
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT 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 3597. Source file NTSB_1977_3_3597.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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