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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI68F0723

1968-04-23 PLYMOUTH, Michigan, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2485G

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182B

Year of manufacture

1959 · 9 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19590203

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A250C5

Registrant of record

BACK COUNTRY GUYS 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 182 · N2485G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

METTETAL

Kind of flying

DC

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

120° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

1,718 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

710

Age

37

Investigator remarks

FUEL LEVEL BELOW REQUIRED T/O RANGE.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/29 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
  • 88/C/63 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION 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 0978. Source file NTSB_1968_3_0978.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.

Browse the full corpus — academia portal ↗