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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA78FYE13

1978-03-10 OLYMPIA, Washington, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6761N Mooney M20C Minor

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

MOONEY M20C · N6761N

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

OLYMPIA MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN/LOWER SCATTERED

Temp

42° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000680075

Total time

2,454 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

264

Age

24

Investigator remarks

OVERFLEW SUITABLE APPTS WITH FUEL STATUS LOW.

Cause factors

64/C/27 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/23 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MISCALCULATED FUEL CONSUMPTION Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
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 0512. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0512.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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