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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ATL81FKG35

1981-07-26 LOUISVILLE, Georgia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N65WB

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172G

Year of manufacture

1966 · 15 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-300 SER (145 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A88C57

Registrant of record

MCKAMEY ROBERT S

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N65WB Cessna 172G None

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 172G · N65WB

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

LOUISVILLE MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

300° / — kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017254426

Total time

1,670 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

75

Age

24

Investigator remarks

TSTMS SOUTHWEST OF ARPT.COLLIDED W BUSHES.

Cause factors

64/C/28 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause
82/J/H J
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Joint cause
82/J/X J
WEATHER THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY 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 1619. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1619.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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