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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW67A0066

1966-12-29 ANTHONY, New Mexico, United States Fatal 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 150F · N6693F

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

L

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

010° / 8 kt

Temp

36° F

Aircraft history

Total time

576 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

22

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

S TO PRACTICE STALLS.

Investigator remarks

STALL WARNING HORN INOPERATIVE.PURPOSE OF FLT WA

Cause factors

  • 64/A/23 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 75/J/JY J
    SYSTEMS OTHER 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 2 1070. Source file NTSB_1966_2_1070.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.