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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW71AF021

1970-11-10 ROYSE CITY, Texas, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8330G Cessna 150F Fatal

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 150F · N8330G

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

160° / 9 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015062430

Total time

2,190 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

109

Age

43

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NEAR VERTICAL DIVE.

Investigator remarks

OBS SAW ACFT FROM ABOUT 1000 FT AGL TO IMPACT IN

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/1/67 1
PILOT IN COMMAND PSYCHOLOGICAL CONDITION Subordinate · 1
84/1/A 1
MISCELLANEOUS SUICIDE Subordinate · 1

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 1650. Source file NTSB_1970_3_1650.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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