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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC69F0281

1968-12-18 ROCHESTER, New Hampshire, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3311U

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182F

Year of manufacture

1963 · 5 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A39C14

Registrant of record

BECK GARY

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3311U Cessna 182F 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 182F · N3311U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

SKYHAVEN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

320° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

922 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

143

Age

48

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/48 B
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE

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 4572. Source file NTSB_1968_3_4572.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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