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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC70D0068

1969-07-16 WOLFEBORO, New Hampshire, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2304C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 180

Year of manufacture

1953 · 16 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19551227

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A20B67

Registrant of record

TUMBLESON SHELLY L

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 180 · N2304C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

LAKES REGION

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

250° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000030604

Total time

1,707 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,794

Age

52

Investigator remarks

UNLIGHTED RNWY.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/46 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
  • 64/C/07 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause
  • 80/L/A9 L
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER
  • 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 3206. Source file NTSB_1969_3_3206.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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