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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC83LA110

1983-05-16 GARDNER, Kansas, United States Airport · K34 Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N780H

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182H

Year of manufacture

1965 · 18 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19650826

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA9135

Registrant of record

N780H LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

THE ACFT WAS THROUGHLY PREFLIGHTED TO CHECK FOR WATER IN FUEL. THE ACFT HAD BEEN OUTDOORS IN RAIN FOR SEVERAL WEEKS. RUN-UP AND TAXI WERE NORMAL. DURING RIGHT TURN OUT OF TRAFFIC THE ENGINE QUIT. THE PILOT MADE A LANDING IN A FIELD AND NOSED OVER. THE ACFT FUEL FILTER AND CARBURETOR WERE FULL OF WATER FOLLOWING THE ACCIDENT. THE FUEL CELLS WERE FOUND TO HAVE RIDGES AND STEPS SO HIGH THAT TRAPPED WATER WAS NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE TO REMOVE BY NORMAL PREFLIGHT METHODS. THESE CELLS WERE FACTORY INSTALLED. ALSO THE FACTORY INSTALLED ADAPTERS HAD ERODED ALLOWING WATER TO ENTER AROUND THE FUEL CAPS. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1983_MKC83LA110.txt. Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb. Full investigation docket on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type or causal vocabulary (stall). 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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