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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW69D0425

1969-03-21 PATTERSON, Louisiana, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3808Y Cessna 210D Minor

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 210D · N3808Y

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

D

Airport

WILLIAMS

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

PARTIAL OBSCURATION

Temp

56° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,274 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

553

Age

52

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OT INST RATED.

Investigator remarks

FLEW INTO FOG. LNDG LTS CAUSED DISORIENTATION. N

Cause factors

64/A/07 A
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/66 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SPATIAL DISORIENTATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/A J
WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
82/J/C J
WEATHER FOG 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 0546. Source file NTSB_1969_3_0546.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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