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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW67D0190

1966-08-30 BROWNFIELD, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3183Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182E

Year of manufacture

1962 · 4 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19620514

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A36761

Registrant of record

ALC AVIATION 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 · N3183Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

TERRY COUNTY

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,162 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,500

Age

40

Investigator remarks

MASTER BRAKE CYLINDER ATTACHING BRACKET FAILED.

Cause factors

  • 70/C/CJ C
    AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM) Cause
  • 88/C/95 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE 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 2294. Source file NTSB_1966_3_2294.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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