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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW75AF074

1975-06-20 FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6463A

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182

Year of manufacture

1956 · 19 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560508

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A87E47

Registrant of record

RODON JASON A

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 · N6463A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

E

Airport

DRAKE FIELD

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN/LOWER SCATTERED

Wind

160° / 5 kt

Temp

87° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000033263

Total time

6,075 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

10,000

Age

56

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

.

Investigator remarks

INADVERTENTLY KICKED FUEL SELECTOR TO OTHER TANK

Cause factors

  • 64/C/32 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
  • 88/C/96 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
  • 83/B/D B
    TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION
  • 88/L/03 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CHECKLIST-FAILED TO USE
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 1379. Source file NTSB_1975_3_1379.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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