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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW70F0295

1969-11-09 SEILING, Oklahoma, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2397R

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182G

Year of manufacture

1964 · 5 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19640411

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A22D4C

Registrant of record

ELEVATE AIR 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 · N2397R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

SEILING

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018255497

Total time

1,371 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

100

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RISE,NS GR COLLAPSED,ACFT NSD OVER.

Investigator remarks

CAMSHAFT TO #5 CYL FAILED,LNDD IN WHEAT FLD,HIT

Cause factors

  • 74/C/AY C
    POWERPLANT OTHER Cause
  • 88/C/95 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
  • 83/B/F B
    TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 4748. Source file NTSB_1969_3_4748.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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