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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW75FQG57

1975-06-04 AMARILLO, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4836F

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA U206A

Year of manufacture

1966 · 9 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19780713

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5F6EE

Registrant of record

GOLD RIVER AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4836F Cessna U206A 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 U206A · N4836F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

TRADEWIND

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

060° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000U206-0536

Total time

1,398 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

IA (IA)

Age

27

Investigator remarks

PLT HAD NO OFFICIAL RECORD.

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/C/80 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND Cause
64/C/82 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause
64/L/02 L
PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION BEYOND EXPERIENCE/ABILITY LEVEL
84/L/8 L
MISCELLANEOUS UNQUALIFIED PERSON OPERATED AIRCRAFT
88/L/AQ L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND
88/K/DH K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY 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 1766. Source file NTSB_1975_3_1766.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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