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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW70D0321

1969-12-02 LEVELLAND, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N22360

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 150H

Year of manufacture

1968 · 1 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-200 SERIES (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19680222

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1EF69

Registrant of record

LEVY PETER F

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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 150 · N22360

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

LEVELLAND

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 3 kt

Temp

51° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015068236

Total time

957 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

8,500

Age

61

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

UNLIGHTED AREA OF ARPT.

Investigator remarks

TAXIED INTO CULVERT BETWEEN TAXIWAY AND RAMP ON

Cause factors

  • 64/A/38 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND TAXIED/PARKED WITHOUT PROPER ASSISTANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 80/J/BY J
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER 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 4473. Source file NTSB_1969_3_4473.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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