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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW80DA005

1979-10-18 TYLER, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4697K

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182P

Year of manufacture

1975 · 4 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19750315

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5BE61

Registrant of record

MORGAN JAMES D

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 · N4697K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018263698

Total time

2,893 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,522

Age

20

Investigator remarks

EXH VALVE ROCKER ARM SHAFT BOSSES SEPARATED.

Cause factors

  • 68/C/J2 C
    PERSONNEL POOR/INADEQUATE DESIGN Cause
  • 74/C/AD C
    POWERPLANT CYLINDER ASSEMBLY Cause
  • 83/B/I B
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS

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 3670. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3670.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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