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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW76FPD17

1975-10-25 DENTON, Texas, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7122M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

KUBICEK FACTORY S R O BB30Z

Year of manufacture

2025

TCDS

B04CE · KUBICEK FACTORY S R O

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20251112

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A98625

Registrant of record

A TO Z BALLOONING 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 175 · N7122M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

DENTON MUNICIPAL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / — kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00005412-8-A

Total time

2,687 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

400

Age

34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PCH. NO ACFT OR ENG MALFUNCTION FOUND.

Investigator remarks

ACFT TOUCHED DOWN IN PLOWED FIELD DURING NIGHT A

Cause factors

  • 64/C/19 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO USE OR INCORRECTLY USED MISC.EQUIPMENT Cause
  • 64/C/48 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
  • 83/K/F K
    TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor
  • 88/L/01 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ALTIMETER SETTING-INCORRECT
  • 88/L/11 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INSTRUMENTS-MISREAD OR FAILED TO READ
  • 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 3226. Source file NTSB_1975_3_3226.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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