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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC73FCA13

1972-12-21 CHESTERFIELD, Missouri, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1952X 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 · N1952X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Business

Airport

SPIRIT ST LOUIS

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

320° / 6 kt

Temp

32° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000182-56052

Total time

847 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,572

Age

60

Investigator remarks

ENCTRD ICING CONDITIONS DRG DSCNT THRU CLDS.

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/F J
WEATHER ICING CONDITIONS-INCLUDES SLEET,FREEZING RAIN,ETC. Joint cause
88/J/74 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRFRAME ICE Joint cause
88/1/AW 1
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 1

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 2946. Source file NTSB_1972_3_2946.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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