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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD76FLJ20

1976-04-10 LOUISBURG, North Carolina, 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 · N5188D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

FRANKLIN COUNTY

Kind of flying

DG

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

240° / 6 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000051288

Total time

2,203 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,500

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

6 PLUGS HAD ELECTRODES BRIDGED WITH LEAD.

Investigator remarks

ALL LWR PLUGS CONT EXCESSIVE LEAD DEPOSITS.5 OF

Cause factors

  • 68/C/D6 C
    PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
  • 74/C/BC C
    POWERPLANT SPARK PLUG Cause
  • 64/B/46 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED
  • 88/K/AQ K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND Joint factor
  • 80/K/BF K
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SOFT SHOULDERS Joint factor

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 0706. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0706.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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