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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN80FQA21

1980-03-09 TAOS, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8598T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182C

Year of manufacture

1960 · 20 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19600109

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABCC49

Registrant of record

FOSTER JACOB D

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 · N8598T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

TAOS MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000052498

Total time

2,030 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

76

Age

49

Investigator remarks

WND GUSTING 20KTS.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/25 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/H J
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 0426. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0426.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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