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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA80FA042

1980-08-11 SALMON, Idaho, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

CESSNA T207 · N91115

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000T20700078

Total time

3,512 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,187

Age

20

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

D HUNTER.SITE NOT ON PLANNED ROUTE.D/A APRX 9000FT

Investigator remarks

LARGE GAME PREVIOUSLY SEEN NR ACDNT SITE.PAX AVI

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/14 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS UNWARRANTED LOW FLYING Joint cause
  • 82/J/W J
    WEATHER HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE 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 1729. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1729.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.