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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW66D0439

1965-12-11 PECOS, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3598U

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182F

Year of manufacture

1963 · 2 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19630820

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A409BF

Registrant of record

DUNN MARK

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 · N3598U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

PECOS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 45 kt

Temp

55° F

Aircraft history

Total time

613 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

820

Age

26

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTING TO 45 KNOTS

Cause factors

  • 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 3529. Source file NTSB_1965_3_3529.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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