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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW72DRG80

1972-04-30 SAN MARCOS, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4303B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 170B

Year of manufacture

1955 · 17 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-300 SER (145 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560301

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A525E1

Registrant of record

WETHERBEE MICHAEL

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4303B Cessna 170B 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 170B · N4303B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

LOWMAN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000026647

Total time

2,435 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

270

Age

53

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause

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 2448. Source file NTSB_1972_3_2448.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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