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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW78DRG52

1978-06-14 JUNCTION, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3ZC

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 680

Year of manufacture

2012

Engine

P&W CANADA PW306C

Seats / Engines

9 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20150515

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A31CE2

Registrant of record

ZACHRY INDUSTRIAL INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3ZC Beech E90 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

BEECH E90 · N3ZC

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000LW-80

Total time

3,006 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

3,356

Age

48

Investigator remarks

WINGS DMGD.

Cause factors

82/A/K A
WEATHER TURBULENCE IN FLIGHT,CLEAR AIR Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 1175. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1175.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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