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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA80DYA24

1980-08-02 BLACKFOOT, Idaho, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N98484

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER J3C-65

Year of manufacture

1946 · 34 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR A&C75 SERIES (75 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19581030

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ADBD8D

Registrant of record

LITTLE YELLOW CUB LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N98484 Piper J3C-65 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

PIPER J3C-65 · N98484

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

PRIVATE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

045° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000018685

Total time

919 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,300

Age

58

Investigator remarks

LND IN WHEAT SHORT OF RWY.

Cause factors

64/C/45 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE,SPEED,AND ALTITUDE Cause

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 1726. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1726.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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