NTSB CAROL · Event
Event FTW71AF011
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
CONVAIR 600 · N94236
Damage
None
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Weather at impact
Sky
CLEAR
Aircraft history
Serial number
000000000069
Total time
46,981 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
DA (DA)
Total hours
7,577
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
IN AREA.
Investigator remarks
FLT ATTENDANT FELL AND BROKE R ANKLE. SCTD TSTMS
Cause factors
- 82/A/K A WEATHER TURBULENCE IN FLIGHT,CLEAR AIR 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
1 0030.
Source file
NTSB_1970_1_0030.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2022 · Conference paper
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