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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI73DER05

1973-02-03 RIVER FALLS, Wisconsin, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2100R

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182G

Year of manufacture

1964 · 9 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19640212

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1BBEA

Registrant of record

ABRESCH CRAIG G

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 · N2100R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Airport

RIVER FALLS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000182-55300

Total time

1,335 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

407

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RFLEW ARPTS,CONT TO DEST.FUEL EX 3HR 50MIN OF FLT.

Investigator remarks

FUEL NOT CKD BFR DEP.INFLT PLT NOTED LOW FUEL,OV

Cause factors

  • 64/C/29 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
  • 64/C/27 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING Cause
  • 64/C/32 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
  • 88/C/63 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
  • 80/B/BC B
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW ON RUNWAY
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 0551. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0551.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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