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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW73DRA31

1973-05-25 WINNIE, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N450LR

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE G-IV

Year of manufacture

1988

Engine

ROLLS-ROYC TAY 611-8

Seats / Engines

22 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20141213

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A57326

Registrant of record

AVIATION COMPANY INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N450LR Boeing IB75A 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

BOEING IB75A · N450LR

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

TOWER AG STRIP

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000075-789

Total time

6,824 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,300

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

Y.PLT USED HEAVY BRAKING TO AVOID TRUCK.

Investigator remarks

VEHICLE DRIVEN ON TO RUNWAY FROM ADJACENT HIGHWA

Cause factors

68/A/K5 A
PERSONNEL DRIVER OF VEHICLE Cause — pilot/personnel action
84/A/7 A
MISCELLANEOUS EVASIVE MANEUVER TO AVOID COLLISION Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 1377. Source file NTSB_1973_3_1377.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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