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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW82DPD03

1981-11-05 RANGER, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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 · N8944X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 15 kt

Temp

55° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018253344

Total time

3,359 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,454

Age

23

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

DDERS COLLAPSED.NO BLOCKAGE FND IN VENTS.DARK NGT.

Investigator remarks

BOTH PLASTIC FUEL CAPS WARPED,BOTH FUEL CELL BLA

Cause factors

  • 74/C/CY C
    POWERPLANT OTHER Cause
  • 88/C/96 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
  • 74/L/CJ L
    POWERPLANT VENTS,DRAINS,TANK CAPS
  • 88/L/CW L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WARPED
  • 74/L/CA L
    POWERPLANT TANKS
  • 88/L/BJ L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS COLLAPSED

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 2583. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2583.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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