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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW75DRA09

1974-10-12 FRIENDSWOOD, Texas, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N47097 Ryan ST3KR 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

RYAN ST3KR · N47097

Damage

None

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

A0

Operator type

D

Airport

CLOVER FIELD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

135° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001460

Total time

816 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,432

Age

50

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

N L MAG.OTR PLT HAD NO TIME IN TYPE ACFT.

Investigator remarks

PILOT HAND CRANKED ENGINE WITH IGNITION SWITCH O

Cause factors

64/A/36 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER STARTING PROCEDURES Cause — pilot/personnel action
65/J/31 J
COPILOT 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 3210. Source file NTSB_1974_3_3210.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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