Event FTW79DRA03

1978-11-12 WICHITA FALLS, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1588G Cessna 421B 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 421B · N1588G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000460811

Total time

1,611 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

15,000

Age

58

Cause factors

74/A/G5 A
POWERPLANT STACKS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/51 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN ENGINE 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 3287. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3287.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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