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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD79DKM17

1979-07-01 BOONE, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N91526 Cessna 182M 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 182M · N91526

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

BOONE-BLOWING RK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

330° / 10 kt

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000182-59807

Total time

3,490 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

170

Age

25

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

DFIELD ON WET SOD RWY.

Investigator remarks

ERRATIC TFC PATTERN,HIGH FAST ON FINAL,T/D NR MI

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/C/80 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND Cause
88/L/AQ L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND
80/K/BA K
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES WET RUNWAY Joint factor
88/K/DH K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY Joint factor
80/K/BY K
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER 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 1320. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1320.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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