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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN72DTC20

1972-03-06 RAWLINS, Wyoming, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5210U Cessna U206 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 U206 · N5210U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B0

Operator type

D

Airport

RAWLINS

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

220° / 24 kt

Temp

54° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000206-0210

Total time

4,094 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

3,137

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

S PLT ATMTD TO TURN INTO WIND FOR TKOF.

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTING 42K.GUST FLIPPED ACFT ON ITS BACK A

Cause factors

64/A/33 A
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/H J
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Joint cause

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 0648. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0648.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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