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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN70FXT01

1970-01-08 SPANISH FORK, Utah, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1951X

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182H

Year of manufacture

1965 · 5 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19650208

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A17D4F

Registrant of record

SKYLINE AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE INC

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 182 · N1951X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

SPANISH FORK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018256051

Total time

1,757 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,263

Age

47

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ND OF RNWY.

Investigator remarks

STRUCK 50FT POWER LINE ABT 1/2 MILE NW OF APCH E

Cause factors

  • 64/C/48 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE 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 0124. Source file NTSB_1970_3_0124.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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