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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA69A0060

1969-06-05 NORTH BEND, Oregon, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2665S Cessna 337C Fatal

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 337C · N2665S

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

E

Airport

NORTH BEND

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Temp

58° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000337-0965

Total time

541 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

26,136

Age

49

Investigator remarks

REASON FOR DESCENT BELOW MIN APCH ALT UNDTMND.

Cause factors

64/A/26 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IFR OPERATION Cause — pilot/personnel action

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_1969_3_3031.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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