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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW76FRG46

1976-04-19 NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2122C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 195B

Year of manufacture

1953 · 23 years old at event

TCDS

A-790 · TEXTRON AVIATION INC

Engine

JACOBS R755B SERIES (275 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19550916

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1C391

Registrant of record

IRWIN DENNIS R

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 195 · N2122C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

130° / 4 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000016107

Total time

2,518 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

832

Age

48

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LND IN PASTURE.

Investigator remarks

NR 5 CYL HEAD BROKEN. MASTER & LINK RODS FAILED.

Cause factors

  • 74/C/AY C
    POWERPLANT OTHER Cause
  • 88/C/95 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
  • 83/K/F K
    TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 0789. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0789.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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