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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW67F0347

1966-12-19 PEARLAND, Texas, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3728L

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172G

Year of manufacture

1965 · 1 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-300 SER (145 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19651129

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A43EB4

Registrant of record

N3728L LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3728L Cessna 172G Minor

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 172G · N3728L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

PEARLAND

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 5 kt

Temp

51° F

Aircraft history

Total time

245 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

83

Age

22

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ED FLAPS TOO SOON ON GO AROUND.ACFT SETTLED TO RWY

Investigator remarks

PLT ENCOUTERED UNFCST GRND FOG AT LEVEL OFF.RAIS

Cause factors

82/C/C C
WEATHER FOG Cause
64/C/71 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISUSED OR FAILED TO USE FLAPS Cause
68/L/F0 L
PERSONNEL INCORRECT WEATHER FORECAST
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 3716. Source file NTSB_1966_3_3716.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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