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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW67A0008

1966-07-10 WICHITA FALLS, Texas, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2203U

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

TITAN AIRCRAFT TITAN TORNADO

Engine

BOMBARDIER ROTAX (ALL)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20000711

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1E3D5

Registrant of record

WEBB MARK E

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

BRANTLY 305 · N2203U

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

D

Airport

KICKAPOO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 5 kt

Temp

95° F

Aircraft history

Total time

87 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

129

Age

46

Cause factors

  • 64/C/18 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN ADEQUATE ROTOR R.P.M. 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 2 0573. Source file NTSB_1966_2_0573.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.