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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN74FTM11

1974-03-02 CEDAR CITY, Utah, United States Serious 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 210F · N1882F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

195° / 25 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000021058782

Total time

513 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

8,500

Age

52

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

UTE WX.RECOVERED 3/3/74.

Investigator remarks

LNDD ON FROZEN LAKE IN MTNS DUE SVR TURBC & ENRO

Cause factors

  • 64/C/05 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED FLIGHT INTO KNOWN AREAS OF SEVERE TURBULENCE Cause
  • 82/C/M C
    WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS Cause
  • 64/L/27 L
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING
  • 83/K/Y K
    TERRAIN OTHER Joint factor

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 1206. Source file NTSB_1974_3_1206.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.