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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW67D0601

1967-04-26 DALHART, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5630C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 140A

Year of manufacture

1950 · 17 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C90 SERIES (95 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19550919

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7346A

Registrant of record

MALLAMO JOHN

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5630C Cessna 140A None

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 140A · N5630C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

DALHART

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

9,723 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

112

Age

37

Cause factors

82/A/N A
WEATHER LOCAL WHIRLWIND Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 1293. Source file NTSB_1967_3_1293.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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