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DEN67A0045

1967-02-07 · ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
CESSNA 210-5A · N4855U
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dusk
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D0
Operator type
E
Kind of flying
CI

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR
Wind
170° / 7 kt
Temp
26° F

Aircraft history

Total time
655 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
955
Age
34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AY IS 8800 FT MSL.PLT BLOOD ALCOHOL LVL 56.0 MG.PC

Investigator remarks

ELEVATION OF CRASH SITE ON MT 3 MI NORTH OF AIRW

Cause factors

  • 64/A/52 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE AND CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/J/65 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENT Joint cause
  • 64/J/67 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND PSYCHOLOGICAL CONDITION Joint cause
  • 88/J/62 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PILOT FATIGUE Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 2 0053. Source file NTSB_1967_2_0053.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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