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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC81FGM24

1981-07-25 BUTLER, Pennsylvania, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2902F Cessna 182J Serious

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 182J · N2902F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

BUTLER-GRAHAM

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018257002

Total time

1,588 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

520

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

,WTR FND IN GND FUEL PITS & SVR OTR ACFT.

Investigator remarks

WTR FOUND IN L MAIN FUEL TNK,FUEL LN & CARB.ALSO

Cause factors

68/C/D8 C
PERSONNEL OTHER Cause
64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/87 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WATER IN FUEL Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 1611. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1611.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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