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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW79DRA33

1979-07-01 BEAUMONT, Texas, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N89215

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 152

Year of manufacture

1978 · 1 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19781103

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC4F5B

Registrant of record

DELGADO RUBEN E

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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 152 · N89215

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Z

Weather

Z

Phase of flight

Z

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

BEAUMONT MUNICPAL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015282676

Total time

170 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

ZA (ZA)

Investigator remarks

INJURY INDEX PRESUMED.ACFT STOLEN.

Cause factors

  • 84/A/I A
    MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/26 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS STOLEN OR UNAUTHORIZED USE OF AIRCRAFT 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 1224. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1224.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.