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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN68D0205

1968-01-27 MEDICINE BOW, Wyoming, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2742D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 170B

Year of manufacture

1952 · 16 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19930806

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2B7FA

Registrant of record

LLOYD LAND PLANE III LLC

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 170 · N2742D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

ROBBINS RANCH

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

462 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

395

Age

36

Cause factors

  • 66/C/79 C
    DUAL STUDENT Cause
  • 64/C/30 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause
  • 80/L/BC L
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW ON RUNWAY
  • 80/L/BL L
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SOFT RUNWAY

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 0115. Source file NTSB_1968_3_0115.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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