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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW71FRA06

1970-07-18 FRIENDSWOOD, Texas, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N41U Beech B50 Minor

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

BEECH B50 · N41U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

CLOVER FIELD

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000CH-92

Total time

3,284 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,160

Age

34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ON RWY.CRASH LNDD WHEELS DOWN ON GRASSY FLD.

Investigator remarks

DID NOT FEATHER ENG.MADE ENG OUT GO-AROUND,ACFT

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/20 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC.
88/B/07 B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER EMERGENCY PROCEDURES
83/K/D K
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION 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 3208. Source file NTSB_1970_3_3208.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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