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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD78FIA03

1978-02-04 FRIENDLY, Maryland, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9061G Cessna 182N Minor

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 182N · N9061G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

P.G. AIRPARK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

340° / 7 kt

Temp

26° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018260601

Total time

2,100 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,196

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ENG.PRIMER FND UNLOCKED/OPEN.

Investigator remarks

TKOF WITH ICE/SNOW ON WINGS.BLACK PUFFS SMOKE FM

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED
88/L/74 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRFRAME ICE

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 0043. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0043.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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