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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW74DRG69

1974-03-20 SEGUIN, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5580G Cessna 150J 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

CESSNA 150J · N5580G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

GUADALUPE COUNTY

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

310° / 23 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015071080

Total time

1,104 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

23

Age

20

Investigator remarks

ACFT GROUND LOOPED TO LEFT. GUSTING TO 26K.

Cause factors

64/C/80 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND Cause
64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
88/L/91 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS TOUCH AND GO LANDING
88/L/AQ L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND

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 0255. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0255.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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