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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW72AF054

1972-02-16 BEAUMONT, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N94226

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

TOP DOG 582

Year of manufacture

2002

Engine

ROTAX 582SER (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20100120

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD1753

Registrant of record

WILEY AMY JOAN

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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 · N94226

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Airport

JEFFERSON COUNTY

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000048

Total time

50,262 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

9,200

Age

33

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

G NOSE SECTION AND COWLING SEPARATED. 6 MO FLT CK.

Investigator remarks

LOW PRESSURE IMPELLER OF R ENG FAILED. R PROP,EN

Cause factors

  • 74/C/MK C
    POWERPLANT IMPELLER Cause
  • 88/C/36 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause
  • 88/B/51 B
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN ENGINE
  • 88/L/49 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT

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 0014. Source file NTSB_1972_1_0014.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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