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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA81DYE32

1981-06-29 SEATTLE, Washington, United States None 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 152 · N6136B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

BOEING FIELD

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

225° / 14 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

29

Age

30

Investigator remarks

BOUNCED TWICE & DRIFTED INTO VASI.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/25 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
  • 64/B/62 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING
  • 82/L/H L
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 1466. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1466.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.