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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA79FYP40

1979-08-13 DEER PARK, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N46652

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172K

Year of manufacture

1968 · 11 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19680916

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5B307

Registrant of record

TRAIL BRIAN C

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N46652 Cessna 172K 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

CESSNA 172K · N46652

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

DEER PARK

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

070° / 12 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017257411

Total time

4,112 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

21

Age

23

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 1637. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1637.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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