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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW79FQG17

1979-01-21 SEMINOLE, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8725Z

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA P206D

Year of manufacture

1968 · 11 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19681111

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC00E3

Registrant of record

ROMINE GEORGE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8725Z Cessna P206D 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 P206D · N8725Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

190° / 12 kt

Temp

50° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000P206-0525

Total time

2,614 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

415

Age

45

Cause factors

74/C/AC C
POWERPLANT MASTER AND CONNECTING RODS Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN

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 0126. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0126.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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