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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW67A0115

1967-05-30 ALEXANDRIA, Louisiana, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3462L

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA U206B

Year of manufacture

1966 · 1 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19670127

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3D641

Registrant of record

FUSS DOUGLAS A

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 206 · N3462L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

POLLACK

Kind of flying

DG

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

180° / 10 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Total time

59 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Age

24

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SERVE CHUTE ACCIDENTLY OPENED INSIDE ACFT.

Investigator remarks

JUMP MASTER PULLED THRU SIDE OF ACFT WHEN HIS RE

Cause factors

  • 68/C/K4 C
    PERSONNEL PASSENGER Cause
  • 70/A/BD A
    AIRFRAME SKIN AND ATTACHMENTS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/94 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 2 0191. Source file NTSB_1967_2_0191.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.