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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA79FYM30

1979-04-28 SANDY, Oregon, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7142W Piper PA-28 Serious

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

PIPER PA-28 · N7142W

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

MCKINNON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

270° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000028-946

Total time

1,172 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

163

Age

42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

D NOT TO FLY ACFT IN THAT CONDITION.

Investigator remarks

TEMPORARY FLD REPAIR TO OIL LINE 319179. PLT TOL

Cause factors

64/C/01 C
PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION W/KNOWN DEFICIENCIES IN EQUIPMENT Cause
74/C/DB C
POWERPLANT LINES,HOSES,FITTING Cause
88/C/BM C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DISCONNECTED Cause
88/C/81 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OIL EXHAUSTION-ENGINE LUBRICATION SYSTEM 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 0862. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0862.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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