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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI75FEG18

1975-04-26 WAYNESVILLE, Ohio, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4937D Cessna 182A Serious

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 182A · N4937D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

WAYNESVILLE

Kind of flying

DG

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

060° / 9 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000051037

Total time

2,428 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

12,778

Age

62

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

GAR AND WIND SOCK POLE.

Investigator remarks

ENCTRT TURBC FM LEAD ACFT,DRIFTED R,STRUCK T HAN

Cause factors

84/C/1 C
MISCELLANEOUS VORTEX TURBULENCE Cause
64/B/54 B
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE

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 0885. Source file NTSB_1975_3_0885.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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