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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW80FA123

1980-09-26 AUSTIN, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6120X Cessna U206 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 U206 · N6120X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

ED

Operator type

E

Airport

MUNICIPAL

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

050° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000120605822

Total time

56 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

3,838

Age

50

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

.

Investigator remarks

BOLT & COTTER PIN FRM THROTTLE ARM/CABLE MISSING

Cause factors

74/C/I0 C
POWERPLANT THROTTLE-POWER LEVER ASSEMBLIES Cause
88/C/90 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MISSING Cause
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 3689. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3689.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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