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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA70DWA04

1970-02-08 HILLSBORO, Oregon, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3414R

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182L

Year of manufacture

1967 · 3 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19671216

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3C3F9

Registrant of record

DANNINGER JAMES

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 · N3414R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

HILLSBORO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

070° / 14 kt

Temp

55° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000182-58714

Total time

1,075 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

200

Age

39

Investigator remarks

PLT SAID ENG LOST POWER. LANDED IN A SOFT FIELD.

Cause factors

  • 74/C/KA C
    POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
  • 83/B/A B
    TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND
  • 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 0292. Source file NTSB_1970_3_0292.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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