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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW67D0331

1966-11-17 HAMILTON, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2889Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182E

Year of manufacture

1962 · 4 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19620219

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2EF5D

Registrant of record

JUST JUMP SKYDIVING 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

CESSNA 182 · N2889Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

HAMILTON MUNI.

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

160° / 25 kt

Temp

72° F

Aircraft history

Total time

745 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,700

Age

49

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

WINDS 35 KNOTS.

Investigator remarks

PASSENGER APPLIED TOE BRAKES ON TOUCHDOWN.GUSTY

Cause factors

  • 64/A/25 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/77 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTERFERENCE WITH FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/H J
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 3 3766. Source file NTSB_1966_3_3766.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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