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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW72FPD34

1972-03-31 CISCO, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N44X Culver V 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

CULVER V · N44X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

CISCO MUNICIPAL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

78° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000V-165

Total time

734 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

163

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LD 18 HOURS PRIOR.HIT ROCKS UPON LNDG.

Investigator remarks

SPARK PLUG AND BUSHING,NR1 CYL,BLEW OUT.CYL INST

Cause factors

68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
74/C/AD C
POWERPLANT CYLINDER ASSEMBLY Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
83/B/Y B
TERRAIN OTHER

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 0980. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0980.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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