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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW72FPD19

1971-10-27 DENTON, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N72623

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA T206H

Engine

LYCOMING TI0-540 SER (310 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20000301

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A9BC90

Registrant of record

LAW OFFICE OF VINCENT G RIEGER PC

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

CESSNA 140 · N72623

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

HARTLEE FIELD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000009799

Total time

1,510 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

79

Age

40

Investigator remarks

PRACT FORCED LDG.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/48 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
  • 88/L/85 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS

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 3895. Source file NTSB_1971_3_3895.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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