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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW69D0527

1969-05-08 LAREDO, Texas, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9851V Cessna A188 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 A188 · N9851V

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

LINK RANCH

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

120° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000188-0101

Total time

275 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,215

Age

35

Investigator remarks

ACFT LOADED WITH 500LBS SULFUR.

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN

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 3720. Source file NTSB_1969_3_3720.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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