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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW73AF071

1973-05-31 TYLER, Texas, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N73JB Beech E18S Fatal

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

BEECH E18S · N73JB

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

E

Airport

POUNDS

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

66° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000BA218

Total time

9,292 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

5,600

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LDG LTS ON,GR DOWN.

Investigator remarks

HIT TREES 32 FT AGL 1 3/4 MI FROM ARPT. PLT HAD

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor
88/L/62 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PILOT FATIGUE

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 1050. Source file NTSB_1973_3_1050.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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