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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN78FQA14

1978-04-12 ROSWELL, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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 150H · N22962

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

ROSWELL AIR CTR

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000001508645

Total time

2,867 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

25

Age

28

Cause factors

  • 64/C/62 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING Cause
  • 64/B/07 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND
  • 88/L/91 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS TOUCH AND GO LANDING

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 0680. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0680.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.