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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW78FRD47

1978-05-26 BROWNSVILLE, Texas, United States None 2 aircraft Status: Completed

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 421C · N98457

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

Business

Airport

PATTERSON

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

210° / 10 kt

Temp

96° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000421-0050

Total time

676 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

7,386

Age

42

Investigator remarks

RIGHT ENGINE OIL LEAK.CAUSE WAS NOT DETERMINED.

Cause factors

74/C/KY C
POWERPLANT OTHER Cause
88/C/AJ C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LEAK/LEAKAGE Cause
88/C/97 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OIL STARVATION Cause
88/B/DG B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL WHEELS-UP

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 1950. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1950.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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