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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN65D0046

1965-03-30 TAOS, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5209P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA T182T

Year of manufacture

2002

TCDS

3A13 · TEXTRON AVIATION INC

Engine

LYCOMING TI0-540 SER (310 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20020711

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A68C8F

Registrant of record

OLIVER DENNIS L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5209P Piper PA-24 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-24 · N5209P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Temp

45° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,390 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

700

Age

27

Investigator remarks

A/C LANDED ON HIGHWAY AND STRUCK SIGN POST.

Cause factors

65/A/35 A
COPILOT 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 0594. Source file NTSB_1965_3_0594.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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