NTSB CAROL · Event
Event SEA74AS035
Registry · N6213L
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
CESSNA T182T
Year of manufacture
2009
TCDS
3A13 · TEXTRON AVIATION INC
Engine
LYCOMING TIO-540-AK1A (235 hp)
Seats / Engines
4 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
20090121
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A81CC0
Registrant of record
MEH AIR LLC
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
AMER AVCO AA1-B · N6213L
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
IMC
Phase of flight
D9
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
DD
Weather at impact
Sky
OVERCAST
Aircraft history
Serial number
000000000013
Total time
621 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
1,719
Age
46
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
OVERED TERRAIN,TALL TREES,DEATH FM EXPOSURE.
Investigator remarks
RCVRD 3/12/74.UN TO CLIMB TO ABOVE CLOUDS.SNOW C
Cause factors
- 64/A/29 A PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 64/A/40 A PILOT IN COMMAND INITIATED FLIGHT IN ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 64/A/66 A PILOT IN COMMAND SPATIAL DISORIENTATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 64/J/31 J PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT Joint cause
- 82/J/A J WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
- 82/J/D J WEATHER SNOW Joint cause
- 82/J/F J WEATHER ICING CONDITIONS-INCLUDES SLEET,FREEZING RAIN,ETC. Joint 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 0630.
Source file
NTSB_1974_3_0630.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
Beyond the agency record
Search this event elsewhere.
Pre-filled searches into the sources where news + community discussion of aviation events lives. External sources are reported, not agency. Treat them as signal that something happened, not as fact about what happened.
Entity-clustered aviation events in the press — last 24 hr + 30-day archive.
Official agency record + docket.
Investigative docket: factual reports, photos, transcripts.
Long-running aviation incident database (Flight Safety Foundation).
Community NTSB synthesis blog — often has photos and witness reports.
Gold-standard aviation incident blog.
Aviation industry news search.
GA pilot forum — informed but rumor-prone.
GA pilot subreddit search.
Tail-number page — flight history (free tier limited).
AOPA Air Safety Institute search.
Mainstream press coverage. Recent events only.
Privacy-preserving news search.
External links open in a new tab. We don't ingest their content; we deep-link search queries.