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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC68D0542

1968-05-02 OSWEGO, Kansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8140S

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CIRRUS DESIGN SR22

Year of manufacture

2003

TCDS

A00009CH · CIRRUS DESIGN CORP

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-550 SERIES (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20030919

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB1AA1

Registrant of record

DC AIR LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8140S Cessna 150F 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 150F · N8140S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

2,776 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

48

Age

22

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

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Investigator remarks

STUDENT ON XC FLIGHT.LANDED IN PLOWED FIELD. PLT

Cause factors

64/C/03 C
PILOT IN COMMAND BECAME LOST/DISORIENTED Cause
64/C/35 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor
68/L/C1 L
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE TRAINING OF STUDENT

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 1183. Source file NTSB_1968_3_1183.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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