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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA81DYA05

1980-11-14 BLACKFOOT, Idaho, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N58818

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182P

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7963C

Registrant of record

JK HOMES LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N58818 Cessna 182P 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 182P · N58818

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Airport

BLACKFOOT

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

180° / 5 kt

Temp

20° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018262317

Total time

704 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,100

Age

40

Cause factors

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 3371. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3371.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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