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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN77DTC02

1976-12-08 CHEYENNE, Wyoming, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2766F

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182J

Year of manufacture

1966 · 10 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19660118

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2BFF6

Registrant of record

BRACH RAYMOND S

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2766F Cessna 182J 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 182J · N2766F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B0

Operator type

D

Airport

CHEYENNE MUNI

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN/LOWER SCATTERED

Wind

290° / 26 kt

Temp

51° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018256866

Total time

2,399 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

432

Age

46

Investigator remarks

PILOT RECEIVED WIND FROM TOWER WIND GUSTS 33

Cause factors

64/A/33 A
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/A/H A
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3766. Source file NTSB_1976_3_3766.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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