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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW74DQG11

1973-08-19 BROWNFIELD, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N767M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GLASFLUGEL H 301 LIBELLE

Year of manufacture

1967 · 6 years old at event

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20130805

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA5C9C

Registrant of record

BRADFORD JOHN KEVIN

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

GLASFLUGEL H301 · N767M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

180° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000055

Total time

270 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

4,149

Age

36

Investigator remarks

RAN OUT OF LIFT.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/35 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 83/J/A J
    TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND 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 2173. Source file NTSB_1973_3_2173.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.