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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN66D0318

1966-05-21 ANTHONY, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7577M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 175

Year of manufacture

1959 · 7 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR GO-300 SERIES (175 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19590209

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA3763

Registrant of record

MORROW SCOTT

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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 175 · N7577M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

FRED SMITHS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

280° / 35 kt

Temp

90° F

Aircraft history

Total time

922 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

475

Age

58

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

T OF RUNWAY.

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTY 25-35 KTS. SUDDEN DOWNDRAFT JUST SHOR

Cause factors

  • 82/C/H C
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Cause
  • 82/C/M C
    WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS 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 1156. Source file NTSB_1966_3_1156.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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