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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK73DVA61

1973-06-02 MODESTO, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N92816

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182N

Year of manufacture

1970 · 3 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19700608

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ACDE7C

Registrant of record

VAN CLEVE G STEVEN

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N92816 Cessna 182N 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 182N · N92816

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

MODESTO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

330° / 12 kt

Temp

88° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018260373

Total time

1,752 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

236

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

T.

Investigator remarks

PLT STATED L BRAKE DIDN'T HOLD,RAN DWN EMBANKMEN

Cause factors

70/C/CJ C
AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM) Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 1131. Source file NTSB_1973_3_1131.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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