NTSB CAROL · Event
Event SEA79DYE42
Aircraft involved
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
GREAT LAKES BABY · N8850
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
EY
Operator type
D
Airport
ARLINGTON
Kind of flying
DB
Weather at impact
Sky
CLEAR
Wind
045° / 5 kt
Aircraft history
Serial number
7Z
Total time
127 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
200
Age
64
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
T CTL.
Investigator remarks
HI-SPEED GND RUN,BECAME AIRBORNE,THEN LNDD & LOS
Cause factors
- 64/C/22 C PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
- 64/L/31 L PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT
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 1990.
Source file
NTSB_1979_3_1990.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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