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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA67F0360

1967-06-08 MEAD, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3288U

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182F

Year of manufacture

1963 · 4 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19630315

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A38F8B

Registrant of record

VETCH ROD F

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 182 · N3288U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Airport

ABRAMS STRIP

Kind of flying

A2

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

180° / 3 kt

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Total time

835 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

817

Age

28

Investigator remarks

PRACTISING FORCED LNDG.

Cause factors

  • 88/C/85 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS Cause
  • 64/B/25 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF
  • 67/B/30 B
    CHECK PILOT
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 3031. Source file NTSB_1967_3_3031.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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