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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC69A0044

1969-01-14 OGALLALA, Nebraska, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8656Z Cessna P206C 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 P206C · N8656Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Day

Weather

Marginal VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

E

Airport

OGALLALA

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

OBSCURATION

Aircraft history

Total time

301 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,111

Age

25

Investigator remarks

ATTEMPTED T/O WITH KNOWN WEA BELOW T/O MINIMUMS.

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
64/C/33 C
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause
82/L/A L
WEATHER LOW CEILING
82/L/C L
WEATHER FOG

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 0059. Source file NTSB_1969_3_0059.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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