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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW80DRJ17

1980-05-05 SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, 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 · N4899H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

300° / 9 kt

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015284008

Total time

179 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

16

Age

20

Investigator remarks

PRACTICING SIMULATED ENG FAILURES.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/21 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PREMATURE FLAP RETRACTION Joint cause
  • 88/J/85 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS Joint cause

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 0503. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0503.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.