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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC79FNE1S

1979-05-28 ELLINGTON, Connecticut, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2486G

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182B

Year of manufacture

1959 · 20 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19590123

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A250E8

Registrant of record

DENTON BOB

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 182 · N2486G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

Y

Airport

ELLINGTON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 10 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000015786

Total time

3,278 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

402

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

EL ON BOTH.MANUAL STATES 5GAL UNUSABLE IN EACH TK.

Investigator remarks

3GAL FUEL FOUND IN L TANK,7GAL IN RT TANK.FUEL S

Cause factors

  • 64/C/29 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
  • 64/C/32 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
  • 88/C/96 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION 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 0776. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0776.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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