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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA82IA008

1981-11-30 SEATTLE, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3533P Piper PA-31 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

PIPER PA-31 · N3533P

Damage

None

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

E

Airport

BOEING FIELD

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000317952182

Total time

2,150 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,460

Age

23

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

MISC-OIL EXHAUSTION FOR UNKN RSN.

Investigator remarks

OIL LEAK IN VCNTY OF OIL FILLER CAP.LNDD OK.

Cause factors

84/A/J A
MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/81 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OIL EXHAUSTION-ENGINE LUBRICATION SYSTEM Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 5 0058. Source file NTSB_1981_5_0058.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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