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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN68D0254

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

Aircraft involved

N2693X Cessna TP206 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

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). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

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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