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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC77FER13

1976-12-29 BRAINERD, Minnesota, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4GL

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182P

Year of manufacture

1973 · 3 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19731221

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4A890

Registrant of record

WEST CHRISTINA

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

CESSNA 182 · N4GL

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

BRAINERD

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OBSCURATION

Wind

360° / — kt

Temp

-25° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000182-62723

Total time

1,050 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

317

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TURBULENCE LOCAL PILOT LISTED BRAKING ACTION FAIR

Investigator remarks

PILOT DID NOT USE FLAP ON APPROACH DUE TO LIGHT

Cause factors

  • 64/C/46 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
  • 64/C/82 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause
  • 80/K/BC K
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW ON RUNWAY Joint factor
  • 88/K/DH K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY 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 3672. Source file NTSB_1976_3_3672.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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