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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW70FRA17

1970-05-13 DEVERS, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N10262

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA T182T

Year of manufacture

2006

TCDS

3A13 · TEXTRON AVIATION INC

Engine

LYCOMING TI0-540 SER (310 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20060215

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A00F67

Registrant of record

DAVOLI THIRD FAMILY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N10262 Grumman G-164 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-164 · N10262

Damage

Destroyed

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

AG STRIP

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 5 kt

Temp

74° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000062

Total time

3,031 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

12,000

Age

51

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

DOWN,HIT GROUND.

Investigator remarks

AFT T/O,ATTEMPTED TO REMOVE CTL LOCK,ACFT NOSED

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/09 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS GUST LOCKS ENGAGED 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 2061. Source file NTSB_1970_3_2061.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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