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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW76DPG38

1975-12-11 DE WITT, Arkansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N95309

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

TAYLORCRAFT BC12-D

Year of manufacture

1946 · 29 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR A&C65 SERIES (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19570712

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD4246

Registrant of record

MEDINA AURELIO J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N95309 Taylorcraft BC12-D 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

TAYLORCRAFT BC12-D · N95309

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

SMITH

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

360° / 10 kt

Temp

50° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000009709

Total time

1,500 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

110

Age

26

Cause factors

64/A/79 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/H J
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 3648. Source file NTSB_1975_3_3648.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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