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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW69F0398

1969-02-16 PEARLAND, Texas, 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

PIPER PA-24 · N9151P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

PEARLAND

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,212 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,286

Age

31

Cause factors

  • 66/C/46 C
    DUAL STUDENT Cause
  • 64/C/82 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause
  • 64/C/30 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause

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 0105. Source file NTSB_1969_3_0105.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.