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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA75FLA17

1974-10-04 PENSACOLA, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N21283 Cessna 182P None

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 182P · N21283

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

FERGUSON

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018261536

Total time

759 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,300

Age

50

Investigator remarks

NR 1 CYL CONNECTING ROD FAILED AT ROD CAP.

Cause factors

74/A/AC A
POWERPLANT MASTER AND CONNECTING RODS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
83/B/A B
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 3617. Source file NTSB_1974_3_3617.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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