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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW71DPM18

1971-01-13 SKIATOOK, Oklahoma, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

CESSNA 150D · N4522U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

CG

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015060522

Total time

7,594 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

34,000

Age

56

Investigator remarks

STEEP APCH TO LDG ON ROAD.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/49 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED SPEED AND ALTITUDE Cause
  • 82/L/C L
    WEATHER FOG
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 0525. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0525.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.