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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW79DRD13

1979-01-20 VENICE, Louisiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N42610

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 180J

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19730727

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5147D

Registrant of record

MEADOWS MARCUS

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N42610 Cessna 182F 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

CESSNA 182F · N42610

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Total time

1,100 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,700

Age

28

Investigator remarks

BANK OF RIVER.

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 0137. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0137.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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