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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN70FQA11

1970-03-26 LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1957N

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 525

Year of manufacture

2024

Engine

WILLIAMS FJ44-1AP

Seats / Engines

8 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20241219

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A17E18

Registrant of record

AVIATION TRUST COMPANY LLC TRUSTEE

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 140 · N1957N

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

LOS ALAMOS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000012193

Total time

2,065 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

155

Age

28

Investigator remarks

L X-WIND 90DEG 10K GUSTING 15K.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/25 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
  • 64/C/07 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause
  • 64/C/71 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISUSED OR FAILED TO USE FLAPS Cause
  • 83/B/I B
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS

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 0083. Source file NTSB_1970_3_0083.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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