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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA79DYA09

1979-03-12 HAILEY, Idaho, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N348X

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MAULE M-5-210C

Engine

AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19751231

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3DD13

Registrant of record

JONES CHRIS W

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N348X Maule M5210C 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

MAULE M5210C · N348X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

FREIDMAN

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

145° / 9 kt

Temp

42° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000005162C

Total time

283 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

101

Age

31

Cause factors

64/C/80 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND Cause
64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
88/L/AQ L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND

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 0263. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0263.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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