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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA69D0160

1968-08-18 TOCCOA, Georgia, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6018B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182A

Year of manufacture

1957 · 11 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19570103

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7CE68

Registrant of record

MCGRATH ROBERT J

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 · N6018B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EY

Operator type

Business

Airport

TOCCOA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

1,830 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

987

Age

60

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CFT INTO AIR.

Investigator remarks

PLT THOUGHT NOSE TIRE WAS FLAT ON LNDG. HORSED A

Cause factors

  • 64/A/44 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SPONTANEOUS-IMPROPER ACTION Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/23 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 2953. Source file NTSB_1968_3_2953.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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