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Event NYC75DNA29

1975-01-04 STOW, Massachusetts, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N91987

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182M

Year of manufacture

1969 · 6 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19691017

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ACBBAA

Registrant of record

SANDER WILLIAM D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N91987 Cessna 182M 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 182M · N91987

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

MINUTE MAN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

290° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000182-59982

Total time

1,245 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

235

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

R GR DROPPED INTO DITCH.

Investigator remarks

CROSSED RWY THRESHOLD 100MPH A/S.ATMTD GND LOOP

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/B/82 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND
88/K/DF K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL GROUND-WATER-LOOP-SWERVE 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 0025. Source file NTSB_1975_3_0025.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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