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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA73FLA41

1973-05-31 QUINCY, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N21531

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-18-150

Year of manufacture

1957 · 16 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19940817

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1CEF0

Registrant of record

HANS NELSON & SONS NURSERY INC

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 · N21531

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

QUINCY MUNICIPAL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018261694

Total time

316 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

117

Age

24

Investigator remarks

NO RWY LGTS.REFLECTORS ON SIDES OF RWY.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/46 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
  • 64/C/82 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause
  • 64/L/33 L
    PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT
  • 64/L/02 L
    PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION BEYOND EXPERIENCE/ABILITY LEVEL
  • 80/L/BY L
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER

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 1714. Source file NTSB_1973_3_1714.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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