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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW69D0344

1969-01-11 ALEXANDRIA, Louisiana, 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 150G · N3282J

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

ESLER

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 6 kt

Temp

46° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,090 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

33

Age

48

Investigator remarks

ACFT PORPOISED.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/25 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
  • 64/C/62 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING 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 0179. Source file NTSB_1969_3_0179.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.