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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW75DRG56

1975-02-20 SEGUIN, Texas, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1445F

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172H

Year of manufacture

1966 · 9 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-300 SER (145 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19660920

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0B499

Registrant of record

MORRIS LOYD ALBERT

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1445F Cessna 172H Minor

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 172H · N1445F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000172-54940

Total time

1,734 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

132

Age

36

Investigator remarks

MUD DAUBER NEST BLOCKED VENT LINE.

Cause factors

74/C/CJ C
POWERPLANT VENTS,DRAINS,TANK CAPS Cause
88/C/CF C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OBSTRUCTED Cause
84/C/G C
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS Cause
68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN

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 0285. Source file NTSB_1975_3_0285.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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