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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN77DQA41

1977-07-02 LAS VEGAS, New Mexico, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9VG

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PLOCHER EDWARD B SHA-GLASAIR

Year of manufacture

1987

Engine

LYCOMING IO-320 SERIES (150 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19871030

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC6C5C

Registrant of record

OAK TREE TITLE OF OKLAHOMA LLC

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 · N9VG

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

LAS VEGAS MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 20 kt

Temp

95° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000182-62934

Total time

200 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

187

Age

48

Investigator remarks

STALLED ONTO RWY,PORPOISED.GUSTS TO 28KTS.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/28 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause
  • 64/C/62 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING Cause
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
  • 82/L/H L
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 1722. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1722.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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