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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK71FVW08

1970-09-08 BOULDER CITY, Nevada, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N70939 Cessna 182M 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 182M · N70939

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

BOULDER CITY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

103° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018259426

Total time

1,195 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

974

Age

50

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

D DOWNHILL.

Investigator remarks

NO FLAP APCH. TEMP 103 DEG. WIND CALM. RWY SLOPE

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/C/82 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause
82/L/U L
WEATHER HIGH TEMPERATURE
64/L/71 L
PILOT IN COMMAND MISUSED OR FAILED TO USE FLAPS
80/L/BY L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES 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 3690. Source file NTSB_1970_3_3690.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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