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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA70AS034

1970-02-25 LEWISTON, Idaho, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1035D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

KUGLER JOHN KUGLER

Year of manufacture

2005

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20060126

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A012E4

Registrant of record

KUGLER JOHN

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 190 · N1035D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

LEWISTON-NEZ PRCE

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

310° / 6 kt

Temp

47° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000007647

Total time

4,142 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

3,620

Age

36

Investigator remarks

CERTIFICATION INSPECTION,EXPERIMENTAL CATEGORY.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/22 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
  • 70/B/CA B
    AIRFRAME MAIN GEAR-SHOCK ABSORBING ASSY,STRUTS,ATTACHMENTS,ETC.
  • 88/B/36 B
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE
  • 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 1059. Source file NTSB_1970_3_1059.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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