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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA73DYC33

1973-06-09 SANDY, Oregon, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2324X

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182H

Year of manufacture

1965 · 8 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19650407

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A212E8

Registrant of record

SCHUTJET DENNIS

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 · N2324X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

RICH

Kind of flying

DZ

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

300° / 6 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000182-56224

Total time

1,654 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,116

Age

39

Investigator remarks

PIC IN RT SEAT.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/16 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause
  • 64/C/45 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE,SPEED,AND ALTITUDE Cause

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 2594. Source file NTSB_1973_3_2594.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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