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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI67F0495

1967-02-14 VICKSBURG, Michigan, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2813A

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH V35A

Year of manufacture

1969

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19691029

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2D474

Registrant of record

DOIG MARGARET

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 180 · N2813A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

AUSTIN LAKE ARPT

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,420 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

648

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

D SNOW.PLT INSPECTED RNWY BEFORE FLIGHT.

Investigator remarks

ACFT WHEELS BROKE THROUGH THAWING CRUST OF PACKE

Cause factors

  • 64/A/29 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 80/J/BC J
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW ON RUNWAY Joint cause
  • 80/J/BL J
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SOFT RUNWAY 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 0506. Source file NTSB_1967_3_0506.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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