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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC70DCD31

1970-05-18 ATLANTIC, Iowa, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N91814 Cessna 182M Minor

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 182M · N91814

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

E

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

ATLANTIC

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018259920

Total time

29 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

500

Age

60

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NG TRRN.

Investigator remarks

L WING HIT HILL APRX 200FT HIGHER THAN SURROUNDI

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
64/C/82 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause
83/K/Y K
TERRAIN OTHER 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 2080. Source file NTSB_1970_3_2080.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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