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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA79DYM59

1979-08-19 BATES, Oregon, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N40307 Maule M4220C 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 M4220C · N40307

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST/LOWER SCATTERED

Wind

060° / 25 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000002082C

Total time

1,050 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

50

Age

32

Investigator remarks

HIT GULLY LDG ON RIVER BED.

Cause factors

64/C/03 C
PILOT IN COMMAND BECAME LOST/DISORIENTED Cause
64/C/35 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
82/L/X L
WEATHER THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 2481. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2481.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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