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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX81DUJ89

1981-08-12 PAGE, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4844N

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182Q

Year of manufacture

1979 · 2 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19791127

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5FA66

Registrant of record

TURBYFILL TONY L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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 · N4844N

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

PAGE MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

290° / 13 kt

Temp

66° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018267414

Total time

1,204 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,065

Age

22

Investigator remarks

WND VRBL & GSTG 15KTS.TSTM 2-3MI SOUTH OF ARPT.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/46 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
  • 64/B/82 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND
  • 82/L/H L
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
  • 82/L/J L
    WEATHER SUDDEN WINDSHIFT
  • 82/L/X L
    WEATHER THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY
  • 80/K/BA K
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES WET RUNWAY 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 2274. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2274.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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