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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA79FYP21

1979-05-11 ZILLAH, Washington, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1947

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SOLOMON ISAAC LONG EZ SAARUS

Year of manufacture

1992

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19921120

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A17A54

Registrant of record

SOLOMON ISAAC H

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

THORP T-18 · N1947

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

315° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000006

Total time

200 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

701

Age

50

Cause factors

  • 74/C/FA C
    POWERPLANT BLADES Cause
  • 88/C/36 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE 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 1034. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1034.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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