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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW79DPA20

1979-05-19 HILLSBORO, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N738FV Cessna 172N 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

CESSNA 172N · N738FV

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

HILLSBORO

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

225° / 20 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017269951

Total time

992 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

67

Age

18

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTING 25K

Cause factors

64/C/28 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause
82/J/H J
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Joint cause

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 0711. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0711.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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