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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW69F0519

1969-05-27 DE WITT, Arkansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N950X

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

DASSAULT AVIATION FALCON 7X

Year of manufacture

2011

Engine

P&W CANADA PW307A

Seats / Engines

11 seats · 3 engines

Last airworthiness date

20111110

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD36B4

Registrant of record

TP AVIATION II LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N950X Grumman G-164A 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

GRUMMAN G-164A · N950X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

DE WITT

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

750 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

7,500

Age

39

Cause factors

64/A/24 A
PILOT IN COMMAND PREMATURE LIFT-OFF Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 1360. Source file NTSB_1969_3_1360.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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