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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW76DRG17

1975-08-31 MARION, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N21DM VOLKSPLANE VP-1 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

VOLKSPLANE VP-1 · N21DM

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

ZUEHL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000001

Total time

116 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

503

Age

36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OSE CANOPY DRG LDG.

Investigator remarks

CANOPY CAME LOOSE ON FINAL APCH. PLT TRIED TO CL

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
64/L/08 L
PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
70/L/BH L
AIRFRAME WINDSHIELDS,WINDOWS,CANOPIES
88/L/29 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY SECURED

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 2324. Source file NTSB_1975_3_2324.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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