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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW70A0024

1969-09-30 VENICE, Louisiana, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5019E

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 180A

Year of manufacture

1958 · 11 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19580410

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6413F

Registrant of record

FISHER TYLER BRETT

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 180 · N5019E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

050° / 22 kt

Temp

77° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000050319

Total time

5,219 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,649

Age

40

Investigator remarks

L X-WIND. FLOAT EQUIPT,SANK IN BAYOU.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/28 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/H J
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Joint cause
  • 88/J/88 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER 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 2682. Source file NTSB_1969_3_2682.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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