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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC81DNC05

1980-10-12 MIDDLEBURY, Vermont, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3491U

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182F

Year of manufacture

1963 · 17 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19630610

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3E14B

Registrant of record

MALCHOFF KEVIN 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 182 · N3491U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

D

Airport

MIDDLEBURY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

180° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018254891

Total time

1,150 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

332

Age

37

Cause factors

  • 64/A/06 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/J J
    WEATHER SUDDEN WINDSHIFT Joint cause
  • 83/J/F J
    TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint cause
  • 88/J/DH J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY Joint 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 3653. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3653.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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