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DEN68D0254

1968-04-26 · BELEN, New Mexico, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
CESSNA TP206 · N2693X
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
EE
Operator type
Personal/private
Airport
BELEN
Kind of flying
B2

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR
Wind
270° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Total time
637 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
700
Age
28

Investigator remarks

DIRECT X-WIND 15K GUSTING TO 22K.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/46 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
  • 82/L/H L
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 0985. Source file NTSB_1968_3_0985.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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