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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA74DKJ37

1973-12-21 HAZEL GREEN, Alabama, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3186Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182E

Year of manufacture

1962 · 11 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19630329

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A367CA

Registrant of record

JRAM AIR PARTS LLC

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 · N3186Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

HAZEL GREEN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

300° / 10 kt

Temp

30° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018254186

Total time

3,085 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

303

Age

39

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

E BOOT.WATER STANDING ON SOD RWY.BARBED WIRE FENCE

Investigator remarks

4 TO 5 CUPS OF WATER DRAINED FROM CARB AIR INTAK

Cause factors

  • 64/C/35 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
  • 74/C/CL C
    POWERPLANT RAM AIR ASSEMBLY Cause
  • 84/C/G C
    MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS Cause
  • 80/L/BY L
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER
  • 83/B/Y B
    TERRAIN 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 3984. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3984.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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