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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW70FRG33

1970-04-11 SAN ANTONIO, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5101V Morrisey 2150 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

MORRISEY 2150 · N5101V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

W SIDE EXECUTIVE

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

020° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000000FP-1

Total time

1,836 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

385

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

G SCORED AT LEVER END.ENG NOT SHUT OFF OTR MEANS.

Investigator remarks

REPLACED CARB.THROTTLE APRX 1/2,SHAFT AND BUSHIN

Cause factors

68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
74/C/I0 C
POWERPLANT THROTTLE-POWER LEVER ASSEMBLIES Cause
88/C/CD C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS JAMMED Cause
88/B/07 B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER EMERGENCY PROCEDURES

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 1313. Source file NTSB_1970_3_1313.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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