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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI81FEX10

1981-02-20 INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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 · N5362N

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

Marginal VMC

Phase of flight

ED

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

INDIANAPOLIS INTL

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OBSCURATION

Wind

010° / 6 kt

Temp

40° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018267667

Total time

280 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

988

Age

45

Investigator remarks

PLT KNEW L ALT 80-90FT HIGH.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/26 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IFR OPERATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/J/01 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION W/KNOWN DEFICIENCIES IN EQUIPMENT Joint cause
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
  • 82/J/C J
    WEATHER FOG 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 0563. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0563.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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