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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW77FRD40

1977-07-28 VENICE, Louisiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2653

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182R

Year of manufacture

1982

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19821011

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A29451

Registrant of record

BARR AIR PATROL LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2653 Bell 206B None

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

BELL 206B · N2653

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EH

Operator type

Business

Airport

MAIN PASS 92CF

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

215° / 5 kt

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000843

Total time

6,414 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

3,600

Age

27

Cause factors

64/A/54 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE 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 1697. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1697.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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