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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA81FA023

1981-03-14 ASTORIA, Oregon, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2853T Piper PA28RT 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

PIPER PA28RT · N2853T

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

CLATSOP COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

230° / 10 kt

Temp

55° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028R7931224

Total time

493 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

302

Age

29

Investigator remarks

ENCOUNTERED ROTORWASH FROM S-61 TYPE HELO.

Cause factors

84/C/1 C
MISCELLANEOUS VORTEX TURBULENCE 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 0292. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0292.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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