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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW80DPD08

1979-12-26 DENTON, 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 172 · N75510

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

DENTON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017267771

Total time

583 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

81

Age

21

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AREA & CLSD TWY AT RWY END.HIT CONST MACHINERY.

Investigator remarks

PLT STATED-LNDD LONG,ROLLED OUT INTO CLSD CONST

Cause factors

  • 64/C/46 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
  • 64/B/82 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND
  • 80/J/BY J
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER Joint cause
  • 88/3/AW 3
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 3

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 3324. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3324.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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