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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA68F0435

1968-02-28 CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3518Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182E

Year of manufacture

1962 · 6 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3EC0B

Registrant of record

MCANINCH SHAWN R

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 · N3518Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

130° / 4 kt

Temp

35° F

Aircraft history

Total time

768 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

350

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NNING MAP.FURTHER DAMAGE ON LDG AT LOVELL FIELD.

Investigator remarks

PLT NOT INSTRUMENT QUALIFIED.HIT TREES WHILE SCA

Cause factors

  • 64/A/02 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION BEYOND EXPERIENCE/ABILITY LEVEL Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/04 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/08 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING 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 0520. Source file NTSB_1968_3_0520.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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