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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW80DA009

1979-11-01 LUBBOCK, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N71967

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA U206D

Year of manufacture

1969 · 10 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19690902

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A9A0C6

Registrant of record

LIPAN CREEK FLYING SERVICE LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N71967 Cessna U206D 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 U206D · N71967

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

E

Airport

LUBBOCK REGIONAL

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

050° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000U206-1241

Total time

1,755 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

13,262

Age

57

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
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 2624. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2624.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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