Atlas / NTSB / SEA65D0064

NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA65D0064

1965-05-20 PASCO, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1625D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 170B

Year of manufacture

1951 · 14 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C145 SERIES (145 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0FC27

Registrant of record

HATCHER AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1625D Cessna 170B 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 170B · N1625D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

PASCO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

225° / 25 kt

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Total time

3,800 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

92

Age

47

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTING TO 25 KNOTS

Cause factors

64/A/28 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/H J
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 3 1151. Source file NTSB_1965_3_1151.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Beyond the agency record

Search this event elsewhere.

Pre-filled searches into the sources where news + community discussion of aviation events lives. External sources are reported, not agency. Treat them as signal that something happened, not as fact about what happened.

TallyAero Live Wire Aviation press

Entity-clustered aviation events in the press — last 24 hr + 30-day archive.

NTSB CAROL Agency ↗

Official agency record + docket.

NTSB Docket Agency ↗

Investigative docket: factual reports, photos, transcripts.

Aviation Safety Network Aviation press ↗

Long-running aviation incident database (Flight Safety Foundation).

Kathryn's Report Aviation press ↗

Community NTSB synthesis blog — often has photos and witness reports.

Aviation Herald Aviation press ↗

Gold-standard aviation incident blog.