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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA67A0065

1967-05-15 BOZEMAN, Montana, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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 182J · N3598F

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

92

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PK 17N MI NW OF PLTS PLANNED RTE THRU BOZEMAN PASS

Investigator remarks

RECOVERY DATE-5/16/67-ACFT CRASHED ON SACAGAWEA

Cause factors

  • 64/A/03 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND BECAME LOST/DISORIENTED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/04 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
  • 82/J/M J
    WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS 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 0562. Source file NTSB_1967_2_0562.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.