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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN74DQD25

1974-05-29 ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1511Q Cessna 150L Minor

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 150L · N1511Q

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015072811

Total time

1,380 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

483

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FRM SIM FORCED LNDG.

Investigator remarks

STUDENT PLT FROZE RUDDER & ELEV CTLS DRG GO ARND

Cause factors

66/A/42 A
DUAL STUDENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/85 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS 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 1360. Source file NTSB_1974_3_1360.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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