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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW71FRA45

1971-04-04 FRIENDSWOOD, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1793F Cessna 172H 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

CESSNA 172H · N1793F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B0

Operator type

D

Airport

CLOVER FIELD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017255188

Total time

1,594 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

52

Age

23

Investigator remarks

R WG HIT PARKED CAMPER.

Cause factors

64/A/54 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE 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 3 1329. Source file NTSB_1971_3_1329.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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