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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW67D0361

1966-12-26 GRAND SALINE, 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 172 · N5810A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

D

Airport

ARMSTRONG STRIP

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / — kt

Temp

29° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,468 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

100

Age

26

Investigator remarks

PRIVATE AIRSTRIP.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/79 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
  • 64/C/06 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF Cause
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
  • 80/K/BF K
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SOFT SHOULDERS Joint factor
  • 80/L/BA L
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES WET RUNWAY

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 3965. Source file NTSB_1966_3_3965.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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