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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW79FQG31

1979-04-04 AMARILLO, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6996N

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 305A

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19730328

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A94F5C

Registrant of record

OLDER DAN

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6996N Cessna 305A 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 305A · N6996N

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

J

Airport

TRADEWIND

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

330° / 10 kt

Temp

56° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000022690

Total time

5,963 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

9,100

Age

52

Investigator remarks

OTHER CREW-CHECK PILOT.

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 1722. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1722.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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