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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW68F0177

1967-08-24 PEARLAND, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9980A

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 170A

Year of manufacture

1950 · 17 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-300 SER (145 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560314

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ADF2B4

Registrant of record

YORK ROBERT L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9980A Cessna 170A 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 170A · N9980A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

PEARLAND

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Total time

5,614 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

91

Age

40

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
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 2911. Source file NTSB_1967_3_2911.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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