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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN75DQA35

1975-02-22 GALLUP, New Mexico, United States None 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 · N7343N

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

SENATOR CLARK FLD

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Temp

29° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000182-63127

Total time

379 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

56

Age

30

Investigator remarks

ACFT DRIFTD INTO SNOW.RWY PARTIALLY CLRD.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/22 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
  • 80/L/BD L
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW WINDROWS
  • 68/L/H2 L
    PERSONNEL IMPROPER/INADEQUATE SNOW REMOVAL

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 0358. Source file NTSB_1975_3_0358.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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