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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW73DRA26

1973-05-04 FRIENDSWOOD, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6824G Cessna 150L 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 150L · N6824G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

CLOVER

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

100° / 11 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015072324

Total time

1,046 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

56

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CARB HEAT.TURNED R APRX 150DEG TO AVOID TREES.

Investigator remarks

PLT PULLED MIXT CNTRL TO IDLE CUTOFF INSTEAD OF

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED
84/K/7 K
MISCELLANEOUS EVASIVE MANEUVER TO AVOID COLLISION Joint factor
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor

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 0936. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0936.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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