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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW73FRA11

1972-10-13 BRAZORIA, Texas, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N74546 Mooney M20B Minor

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

MOONEY M20B · N74546

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

JEFFERSON LAKE

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001912

Total time

1,466 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

13,000

Age

60

Investigator remarks

R MAGNETO FAILED,L MAGNETO MALFUNCTIONED.

Cause factors

68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
74/C/BA C
POWERPLANT MAGNETOS Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 2804. Source file NTSB_1972_3_2804.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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