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Event SEA81FYP41

1981-09-20 ATHOL, Idaho, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1954C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 170B

Year of manufacture

1953 · 28 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C145 SERIES (145 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560418

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A17DA5

Registrant of record

BOWLER ROBERT I

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1954C Cessna 170B 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

CESSNA 170B · N1954C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

HENLEY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

180° / 5 kt

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000026099

Total time

2,680 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

95

Age

36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PRX 150FT LFT OF RWY.WITNESS RPRTD WND GSTG 15KTS.

Investigator remarks

ENCTRD LFT WND GST,VEERED LFT,STRUCK BYSTANDER A

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
64/B/06 B
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF
82/J/H J
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Joint 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 2661. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2661.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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