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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW74DRG44

1973-12-23 NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N45722

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

LUSCOMBE 8A

Year of manufacture

1946 · 27 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR A&C65 SERIES (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560714

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A58ED6

Registrant of record

BERGEN HENRY E

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

LUSCOMBE 8A · N45722

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

PRIVATE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002249

Total time

1,193 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

944

Age

22

Investigator remarks

T/D TOO FAST,MISUSED BRAKES.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/46 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/22 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/22 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH 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 3606. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3606.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.