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Event FTW69D0164

1968-07-19 KINGSLAND, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8027M Cessna 310I None

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 310I · N8027M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Business

Airport

KINGSLAND

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

140° / 10 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,956 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,360

Age

50

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FT ALSO ON LNDG ROLL.UNCONTROLLED ARPT.

Investigator remarks

INTENTIONAL SWERVE OFF RNWY TO AVOID ONCOMING AC

Cause factors

84/C/7 C
MISCELLANEOUS EVASIVE MANEUVER TO AVOID COLLISION 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 2484. Source file NTSB_1968_3_2484.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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