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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW76FRA28

1976-04-01 PEARLAND, Texas, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5306Q Cessna 150L Minor

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 150L · N5306Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

PEARLAND

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

170° / 9 kt

Temp

67° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00015073206

Total time

1,973 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

15

Age

21

Investigator remarks

HIT VAN 100FT FRM RWY.

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
64/B/15 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS
88/L/22 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH
68/K/K5 K
PERSONNEL DRIVER OF VEHICLE 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 0512. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0512.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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