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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA81DYA08

1981-01-08 HAILEY, Idaho, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4133Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 180K

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470-U (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19770317

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4E21D

Registrant of record

BLAIN GERHART

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4133Y Bellanca 7GCBC 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

BELLANCA 7GCBC · N4133Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

HAILEY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

25° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000952-76

Total time

1,096 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

147

Age

28

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS 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 0160. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0160.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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