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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA81FYM24

1981-05-10 NORTH PLAINS, Oregon, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2071U

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AVID AIRCRAFT AVID FLYER

Year of manufacture

2001

Engine

SUBARU ALL MDLS A/B (400 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20010624

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1AE92

Registrant of record

SOHN RICHARD

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2071U Maule M4220C 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

MAULE M4220C · N2071U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Airport

WILLAMETTE VALLEY

Kind of flying

DI

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

270° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000002061C

Total time

803 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,489

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FLD.

Investigator remarks

PLT UN LND ON ARPT DUE 20K TAILWIND,LND IN WHEAT

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
64/B/46 B
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED
82/K/H K
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Joint factor
88/K/AQ K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND Joint factor
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor

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 1009. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1009.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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