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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW70FRG29

1970-04-02 SAN MARCOS, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N42533 Cessna 182L 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

CESSNA 182L · N42533

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

SCHNEIDER RANCH

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

225° / 3 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000182259061

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,159

Age

33

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RAKES WHEN PLT SAID HE WAS GOING AROUND.

Investigator remarks

COMM PLT PAX APPLIED BRAKES AFTER T/D,RELEASED B

Cause factors

64/C/31 C
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT Cause
64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/C/07 C
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND 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 0101. Source file NTSB_1970_3_0101.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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