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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD76FIA06

1976-03-04 LEXINGTON PARK, Maryland, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N10G

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA TR182

Year of manufacture

1979

Engine

LYCOMING 0-540 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19910620

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A002F1

Registrant of record

FULLER DAVID C

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

SMITH MINI · N10G

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

D

Airport

PARK HALL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

130° / 4 kt

Temp

49° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000G-1234

Total time

366 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,026

Age

33

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

D ENTR FOG BANK,TURN,BFR HI RATE OF DSCNT.

Investigator remarks

VIS EST 1/16 MI IN FOG BANK APCHG ARPT.ACFT OBSV

Cause factors

  • 64/A/40 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INITIATED FLIGHT IN ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/52 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE AND CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/C J
    WEATHER FOG Joint cause
  • 83/J/I J
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 0096. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0096.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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