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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC76DNC36

1976-03-15 WARREN, Vermont, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5110E

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 180B

Year of manufacture

1958 · 18 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19581215

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A66783

Registrant of record

HARTLEY KIRK R

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 180 · N5110E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

WARREN-SUGARBUSH

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

40° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000050410

Total time

1,913 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

10,000

Age

45

Investigator remarks

WIND VARIABLE 260-310 DEGREES 10K GUSTING 35K.

Cause factors

  • 74/C/KA C
    POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
  • 64/B/79 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL
  • 82/K/H K
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Joint factor
  • 64/3/21 3
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS 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 0730. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0730.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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