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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA80DYE38

1980-06-30 SILVERDALE, Washington, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4558A Piper PA-22 Minor

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-22 · N4558A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Airport

APEX

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

72° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000022-3869

Total time

3,916 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,318

Age

51

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OLLIDED W PWR LN DRG FORCED LNDG ON ROAD.

Investigator remarks

GRAPHITE SUBSTANCE IN LINE,SOURCE UNDETERMINED.C

Cause factors

74/C/CB C
POWERPLANT LINES AND FITTINGS Cause
84/C/G C
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS Cause
88/C/CF C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OBSTRUCTED Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION 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 0693. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0693.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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