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Event FTW72FRA10

1971-09-27 PEARLAND, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6211R Cessna 150E 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 150E · N6211R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015061511

Total time

2,653 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

627

Age

24

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NCE AND DIRT MOUND.

Investigator remarks

I/P DEMO OF SOFT FLD TKOF,DNWND,MUSHED IN,HIT FE

Cause factors

64/C/24 C
PILOT IN COMMAND PREMATURE LIFT-OFF Cause
64/C/16 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause
88/L/AQ L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND

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 3426. Source file NTSB_1971_3_3426.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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