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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN74FQD21

1974-05-04 RUIDOSO, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2504R

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182K

Year of manufacture

1967 · 7 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19670513

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A25A72

Registrant of record

JHT AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2504R Cessna 182K None

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 182K · N2504R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

RUIDOSO MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018258204

Total time

2,146 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

6,500

Age

53

Investigator remarks

NUMBER THREE PISTON FAILED,TSO ON PART UNKNOWN

Cause factors

74/C/AE C
POWERPLANT PISTON,PISTON RINGS Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
83/B/A B
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND

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 0938. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0938.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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