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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA74FTI11

1973-10-15 BOZEMAN, Montana, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5673B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 305A

Year of manufacture

1951 · 22 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19720628

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A743AE

Registrant of record

DOOBALACHIE FISH CAMP INC

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 · N5673B

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OBSCURATION

Wind

120° / 12 kt

Temp

40° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000033673

Total time

2,305 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,224

Age

49

Investigator remarks

STRUCK TELFON WIRES. LDG DUE OBSCURED MTN PASS.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/04 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
  • 82/J/B J
    WEATHER RAIN Joint cause
  • 82/J/C J
    WEATHER FOG Joint cause
  • 83/J/I J
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 3734. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3734.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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