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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW73FPD11

1972-08-22 WICHITA FALLS, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3193L Cessna 310J 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 310J · N3193L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Z

Weather

Z

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Airport

WICHITA FALLS AIR

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000310J0193

Total time

2,914 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,090

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RIES DUE VIBRATION.

Investigator remarks

PROP BLADE SEPD,FATIGUE.SUBST DMG TO ENG,ACCESSO

Cause factors

74/C/FA C
POWERPLANT BLADES Cause
88/C/36 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause
88/B/CV B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS VIBRATION,EXCESSIVE
88/L/49 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT

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 3023. Source file NTSB_1972_3_3023.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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