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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA80FA017

1980-01-23 STEVENSON, Washington, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N83586 Aeronca 7AC Fatal

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

AERONCA 7AC · N83586

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

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

00007AC-2262

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,000

Age

56

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ND 1/27/80.

Investigator remarks

CRASHED AT 9500FT LEVEL OF MT.ST.HELENS.ACFT FOU

Cause factors

64/A/52 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE AND CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/M J
WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS Joint 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 0013. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0013.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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