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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW73DQG34

1973-03-10 BIG SPRING, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3193F

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182J

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19660602

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A36B07

Registrant of record

JCD4 CAPITAL 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 · N3193F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B4

Operator type

D

Airport

HOWARD COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

240° / 20 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018257293

Total time

1,202 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,422

Age

54

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTING 51K.

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 0399. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0399.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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