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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD78DLQ09

1978-01-22 LEXINGTON, Kentucky, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7371Q

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182P

Year of manufacture

1972 · 6 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19720228

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A9E796

Registrant of record

HARBOR AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7371Q Cessna 182P 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 182P · N7371Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

BLUE GRASS FIELD

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

130° / 4 kt

Temp

25° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018261011

Total time

1,451 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

979

Age

22

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TUDENT UNDER INST HOOD.

Investigator remarks

SIM INSTRUMENT TKOF.DRIFTED LEFT INTO SNOWBANK.S

Cause factors

66/C/79 C
DUAL STUDENT Cause
64/C/30 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT 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 0039. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0039.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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