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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW81DRG42

1981-06-12 AUSTIN, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2131Q

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 177RG

Year of manufacture

1974 · 7 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING IO-360-A1B6D (200 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19740418

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1C731

Registrant of record

IMHOFF DONALD W

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2131Q Cessna 177RG 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 177RG · N2131Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

ROBERT MUELLER

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

120° / 9 kt

Temp

76° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000531

Total time

1,994 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

934

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

G ON ROAD.GEAR MALFD AFTER TKOF.RET/EXTN SYS DMGD.

Investigator remarks

DRG PREV FLT,ENCTRD LOW FUEL,MADE HARD/EMERG LND

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/AH J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PREVIOUS DAMAGE Joint cause

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 1352. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1352.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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