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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW74DQD18

1974-04-23 FABENS, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N955Z

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BUTLER MIDGET MUSTANG

Year of manufacture

1963 · 11 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-200 (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20121016

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD4979

Registrant of record

BRITTON BENJAMIN J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N955Z MIDGET MUSTNG 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

MIDGET MUSTNG · N955Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

FABENS

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

135° / 30 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000000L101

Total time

446 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

8,213

Age

55

Investigator remarks

GROUND MOUNDS ALONG RWY EDGE.GUSTS TO 37K.

Cause factors

64/C/33 C
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause
64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
82/C/H C
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Cause
80/K/BY K
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER 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 0708. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0708.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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