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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW75FPD14

1974-10-18 DENTON, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7219S

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 150H

Year of manufacture

1967 · 7 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-200 SERIES (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19671201

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A9AAE7

Registrant of record

TULSA FLIGHT TRAINING LLC

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

CESSNA 150 · N7219S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

DENTON MUNI

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015067919

Total time

1,975 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

12

Age

40

Investigator remarks

STDNT PLT ON 1ST SOLO TKOF.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/79 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
  • 80/K/BF K
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SOFT SHOULDERS Joint factor
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 3380. Source file NTSB_1974_3_3380.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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