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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD80FLJ08

1980-02-12 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 · N6449A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

FRANKLIN COUNTY

Kind of flying

DG

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000033249

Total time

3,618 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

7,236

Age

35

Investigator remarks

PLT TAXIED INTO SNOW COVERED DITCH BESIDE RNWY.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/35 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 80/J/BQ J
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW ON RAMP/TAXIWAY 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 0075. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0075.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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