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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW74DRA06

1973-07-22 BEAUMONT, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

CESSNA 190 · N9893A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

BEAUMONT MUN

Kind of flying

DG

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000007596

Total time

2,100 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,222

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

WET RICE FLD.NR 5 PISTN FND BRKN.

Investigator remarks

PLT HEARD LOUD BANG FOLLOWED BY ENG FAIL LND IN

Cause factors

  • 74/C/AE C
    POWERPLANT PISTON,PISTON RINGS Cause
  • 88/C/95 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
  • 83/B/A B
    TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND
  • 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 3295. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3295.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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