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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW79DRG38

1979-06-02 AUSTIN, Texas, United States None 1 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 152 · N48857

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

LAKE SHORE

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015281006

Total time

670 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

48

Age

25

Investigator remarks

ACFT STRUCK SHRUBS ON ABANDONED AIRPORT.

Cause factors

  • 74/C/KA C
    POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
  • 80/B/BI B
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES HIGH VEGETATION

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 1717. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1717.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.