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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC73DKM15

1972-09-29 BREVARD, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3413F Cessna 182J 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 182J · N3413F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

BREVARD

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

180° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018257413

Total time

1,284 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

6,500

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RWY REPAIR IN EFFECT.

Investigator remarks

LND IN SOFT SOD,NOSE GR FAILED. CURRENT NOTAM ON

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/J/29 J
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Joint cause
80/J/BL J
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SOFT RUNWAY Joint cause
88/J/94 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint cause

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 0800. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0800.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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