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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DIA70D0016

1969-06-22 STEVENSVILLE, Maryland, 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 · N6481A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

KENTMORR AIRPARK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Aircraft history

Total time

1,800 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

263

Age

37

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

R ARPT. FURTHER DAMAGE ON LDG AT BAY BRIDGE ARPT.

Investigator remarks

PLT SAID ACFT LDG GR DAMAGED ON T/O FROM KENTMOR

Cause factors

  • 68/C/H1 C
    PERSONNEL FAILURE TO NOTIFY OF UNSAFE COND/AND OR FAILURE TO MARK OBSTRUCTION Cause
  • 80/C/BK C
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES POORLY MAINTAINED RUNWAY SURFACE Cause
  • 70/C/CE C
    AIRFRAME NOSEWHEEL ASSEMBLIES Cause
  • 88/B/AH B
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PREVIOUS DAMAGE

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 1736. Source file NTSB_1969_3_1736.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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