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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA66F0218

1966-03-12 BELLEVUE, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8496Z

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 210-5A(205A)

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19631204

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABA48A

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 205 · N8496Z

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

BELLEVUE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

245° / 5 kt

Temp

55° F

Aircraft history

Total time

685 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

131

Age

43

Cause factors

  • 64/C/46 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED 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 0421. Source file NTSB_1966_3_0421.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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