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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW74DRD05

1973-08-14 VENICE, Louisiana, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5818J Cessna 185E 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 185E · N5818J

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

070° / 7 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018501787

Total time

1,255 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,400

Age

24

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

COND. FLOAT EQUIPPED.

Investigator remarks

PLT ATTEMPTD LDG IN CANAL TOO SHORT FOR EXISTING

Cause factors

64/C/35 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
88/C/DF C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL GROUND-WATER-LOOP-SWERVE Cause
64/L/33 L
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT
83/L/Y L
TERRAIN OTHER

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 2039. Source file NTSB_1973_3_2039.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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