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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA79FA019

1979-01-17 SEATTLE, Washington, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8483M Cessna 182P Fatal

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

CESSNA 182P · N8483M

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

140° / 6 kt

Temp

47° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018264621

Total time

1,215 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

107

Age

37

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

. INJURY INDEX PRESUMED.

Investigator remarks

CRASHED INTO BAY FROM INVERTED ATTITUDE AND SANK

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/88 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint cause
84/1/1 1
MISCELLANEOUS VORTEX TURBULENCE Subordinate · 1
88/1/AW 1
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 1

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 0143. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0143.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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