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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC81DCD30

1981-08-09 OXFORD, Iowa, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N20029

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172M

Year of manufacture

1972 · 9 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19720907

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A194C3

Registrant of record

KEDROWSKI DANIEL J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N20029 Cessna 172M None

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 172M · N20029

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

GREEN CASTLE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

330° / 8 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017260944

Total time

2,268 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

106

Age

27

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
88/3/AW 3
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 3

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 1717. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1717.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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