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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA69D0216

1969-04-13 PALOUSE, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5918F

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

ALON A2

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7A494

Registrant of record

GREGORY VERNON L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5918F Cessna 210G 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 210G · N5918F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

HANSEN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Total time

750 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,108

Age

21

Investigator remarks

STRUCK RISE AT RNWY THRESHOLD.

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
80/K/BY K
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER 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 1120. Source file NTSB_1969_3_1120.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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