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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ATL81DLJ03

1980-12-09 APEX, North Carolina, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2116R

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182G

Year of manufacture

1964 · 16 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19640213

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1C073

Registrant of record

S&H AVIATION 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

CESSNA 182G · N2116R

Damage

None

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

A1

Operator type

D

Airport

COX FIELD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018255316

Total time

2,348 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

623

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NGINE SHUTDOWN WAS COMPLETED.DARK NIGHT.

Investigator remarks

PASSENGER DEPLANED AND WALKED INTO PROP BEFORE E

Cause factors

  • 64/A/20 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 68/A/K4 A
    PERSONNEL PASSENGER Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3120. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3120.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.