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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X0820

1964-03-06 SEDALIA, Missouri, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9213X

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182E

Year of manufacture

1961 · 3 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19611122

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ACC4B8

Registrant of record

CHUNG THOMAS

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 · N9213X

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

SEDALIA

Kind of flying

B0

Aircraft history

Total time

608 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

F6 (F6)

Total hours

11,000

Age

255

Investigator remarks

ENGINE KNOCK DURING RUNUP

Cause factors

  • 64/C/01 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION W/KNOWN DEFICIENCIES IN EQUIPMENT Cause
  • 74/A/AC A
    POWERPLANT MASTER AND CONNECTING RODS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/36 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/B/45 B
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WINDSHIELD,DIRTY,FOGGY,ETC.-RESTRICTED VISION

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 0605. Source file NTSB_1964_3_0605.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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