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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC80FGM04

1979-10-30 CONNELLSVILLE, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7188C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA TR182

Engine

LYCOMING O-540-L3C5D (235 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20080303

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A99D38

Registrant of record

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7188C Cessna TR-182 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 TR-182 · N7188C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

K

Airport

CONNELLSVILLE

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000R182-683

Total time

484 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

335

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OF HYDRAULIC ACTUATOR.

Investigator remarks

RMG UNABLE TO LOCK DOWN DUE TO INTERNAL SCORING

Cause factors

70/A/CB A
AIRFRAME NORMAL RETRACTION/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/CN A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SCORED Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 2685. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2685.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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