NTSB CAROL · Event
Event FTW74AF055
Aircraft involved
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
N.AMERICAN NA-265 · N5565
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dusk
Weather
Marginal VMC
Phase of flight
ED
Operator type
Business
Airport
WILL ROGERS
Kind of flying
B3
Weather at impact
Sky
OBSCURATION
Wind
200° / 6 kt
Temp
33° F
Aircraft history
Serial number
00000282-119
Total time
178 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Flight instructor (CFI)
Total hours
21,500
Age
65
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
REST BFOR FLT.CTLR DIDNT MONITOR ACFT ALT ON RADAR
Investigator remarks
ILS APCH,BLO MIN.DESCND BLO MDA.CREW HAD LITTLE
Cause factors
- 64/A/26 A PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IFR OPERATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 88/J/11 J MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INSTRUMENTS-MISREAD OR FAILED TO READ Joint cause
- 88/J/05 J MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CREW COORDINATION-POOR Joint cause
- 82/J/A J WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
- 82/J/C J WEATHER FOG Joint cause
- 88/J/62 J MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PILOT FATIGUE Joint cause
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 0136.
Source file
NTSB_1974_3_0136.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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