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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI67F0208

1966-09-28 PLAINWELL, Michigan, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7174E

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182B

Year of manufacture

1959 · 7 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19590620

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A998F7

Registrant of record

SUAZO TITO L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7174E Cessna 182B 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 182B · N7174E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

OSTEGO-PLAINWELL

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

235° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

763 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,100

Age

63

Cause factors

64/A/15 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS 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 3 2567. Source file NTSB_1966_3_2567.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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