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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN7LFTC07

1975-08-02 CASPER, Wyoming, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N412T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 210L

Year of manufacture

1972 · 3 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19720131

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4DD37

Registrant of record

EXECUTIVE AVIATION LLC

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

SMITH MINI · N412T

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

NATRONA COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

300° / 5 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000001

Total time

490 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,000

Age

50

Investigator remarks

3RD ACFT IN FLT OF FOUR.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/48 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
  • 64/B/15 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS
  • 83/K/I K
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor
  • 88/L/62 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PILOT FATIGUE

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 2182. Source file NTSB_1975_3_2182.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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