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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA81FYP22

1981-06-13 PASCO, 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 · N6259B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

225° / 10 kt

Temp

59° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015283915

Total time

510 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

708

Age

53

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FD ON STARTER COMMUTATOR & BRUSHES.

Investigator remarks

ENG QUIT DRNG STALL DEMO,UN RESTART.FILM OF OIL

Cause factors

  • 74/C/KA C
    POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
  • 74/B/HH B
    POWERPLANT STARTERS
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
  • 83/K/D K
    TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION 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 1224. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1224.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.