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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW70A0005

1969-07-26 MESQUITE, Texas, United States Fatal 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 210 · N3777Y

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

J M COLE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 11 kt

Temp

84° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,003 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

100

Age

37

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NO-GO PT.SLIPPERY SOD,DOWNHILL RNWY.11K TAILWIND.

Investigator remarks

ACFT ON T/O ROLL,DOOR UNLATCHED.ABORTED PAST GO-

Cause factors

  • 64/A/44 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SPONTANEOUS-IMPROPER ACTION Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 70/J/BF J
    AIRFRAME DOORS,DOOR FRAMES Joint cause
  • 80/J/BY J
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER Joint cause
  • 64/J/80 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND Joint cause
  • 88/J/AQ J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND Joint 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 2167. Source file NTSB_1969_3_2167.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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