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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW67D0359

1966-12-18 BURLESON, Texas, 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 150 · N6424F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Business

Airport

OAK GROVE

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

140° / 9 kt

Temp

61° F

Aircraft history

Total time

32 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

18

Age

21

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

N TO RAISE FLAPS DURING A TOUCH AND GO LANDING.

Investigator remarks

PLT APPLIED TAKEOFF POWER THEN DIVERTED ATTENTIO

Cause factors

  • 64/C/20 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause
  • 64/C/79 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL 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 3956. Source file NTSB_1966_3_3956.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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