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FTW76FPD54

1976-09-01 · JONESBORO, Texas, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N17SM has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (CESSNA 172N), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
CASSUTT IIIM · N17SM
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D7
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number
0000000001SM
Total time
66 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
1,606
Age
42

Cause factors

  • 64/A/34 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND OPERATED CARELESSLY Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/17 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE,SPEED,ALTITUDE OR CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/14 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS UNWARRANTED LOW FLYING Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 2587. Source file NTSB_1976_3_2587.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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