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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW74FRJ30

1974-04-14 SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8205M Cessna T210K Serious

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 T210K · N8205M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

D

Airport

REGIONAL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

330° / 11 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Total time

1,272 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,045

Age

42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

H TREES,RAILROAD EMBANKMENT.

Investigator remarks

ACFT LANDED 2500 FT SHORT OF RUNWAY COLLIDED WIT

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
83/B/I B
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS

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 1087. Source file NTSB_1974_3_1087.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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