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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA65A0064

1965-05-26 FORKS, Washington, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8536T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA A185E

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABB5B9

Registrant of record

LALONDE TERRENCE E TRUSTEE

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 182C · N8536T

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D9

Operator type

Business

Airport

FORKS AIRPORT

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

290° / 4 kt

Temp

48° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,313 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

682

Age

40

Cause factors

  • 64/A/04 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/33 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
  • 82/J/C J
    WEATHER FOG Joint cause

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 2 0455. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0455.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.