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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC79DHA28

1979-09-21 MOSCOW, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N52718 Cessna 182P 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 182P · N52718

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000182629795

Total time

1,450 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

392

Age

37

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

DIRT ROAD THAT HAD 5-6 FOOT DITCH.

Investigator remarks

ALTERNATOR CIRCUIT BREAKER FOUND OPEN. LANDED ON

Cause factors

64/C/35 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
88/L/33 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ELECTRICAL FAILURE
88/L/AL L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CIRCUIT BREAKER POPPED
83/K/Y K
TERRAIN OTHER 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 3602. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3602.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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