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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN74DQA32

1974-03-03 ROSWELL, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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 · N3456S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B0

Operator type

D

Airport

ROSWELL INDSTRIAL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

270° / 27 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018255856

Total time

2,283 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

600

Age

55

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

G TO 34K.

Investigator remarks

PILOT ATTEMPTED OPERATIONS IN KNOWN WINDS GUSTIN

Cause factors

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

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 0254. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0254.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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