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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC69A0027

1968-10-20 MARION, Iowa, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6105S

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA R182

Year of manufacture

1980

Engine

LYCOMING 0-540 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19800715

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7F1D6

Registrant of record

MY SKY 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

AIR-SPACE 18A · N6105S

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

I

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D9

Operator type

D

Airport

LINN-AIRE

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

240° / 7 kt

Temp

62° F

Aircraft history

Total time

126 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

40

Age

34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

D POSITION DUE TO IMPROPER USE OF RUDDER CONTROL.

Investigator remarks

STEEP TURN TO FINAL APPCH.ACFT ROLLED TO INVERTE

Cause factors

  • 64/A/23 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/22 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH 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 4434. Source file NTSB_1968_3_4434.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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