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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC72FCJ18

1971-08-16 CENTRAL CITY, Nebraska, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1946X Cessna 182H Serious

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 182H · N1946X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Airport

CENTRAL CITY MUN0

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

202° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018256046

Total time

1,984 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,250

Age

42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

IN TO 3/16IN.WEAR ON THREADS OF SCREWS.

Investigator remarks

TWO FLOAT BRACKET MOUNTING SCREWS BACKED OUT 1/8

Cause factors

68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
74/C/CG C
POWERPLANT CARBURETOR Cause
64/B/45 B
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE,SPEED,AND ALTITUDE

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 1168. Source file NTSB_1971_3_1168.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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