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Event FTW78FPM15

1978-06-11 HASKELL, Oklahoma, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4692T Schleicher K7 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

SCHLEICHER K7 · N4692T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

HASKELL

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 18 kt

Temp

90° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000773

Total time

1,514 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

ZA (ZA)

Total hours

1,573

Age

50

Investigator remarks

DIVE BRAKES EXTENDED DRG TOW TKOF.

Cause factors

64/A/23 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS 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 0890. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0890.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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