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SEA81FA023

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

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

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).

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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