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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW69F0461

1969-04-02 BURLESON, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N919VC AERO COMDR 560A 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

AERO COMDR 560A · N919VC

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Business

Airport

OAK GROVE

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Total time

3,232 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

17,000

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NG.FAILED TO MANUALLY RAISE LDG GR FOR GO-AROUND.

Investigator remarks

UN RESTART L ENG AFTER SHUT DOWN.HYD PUMP ON L E

Cause factors

64/C/20 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause
88/C/85 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS Cause
88/C/07 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER EMERGENCY PROCEDURES Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED
88/B/22 B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH

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 0961. Source file NTSB_1969_3_0961.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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