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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW81DRG64

1981-09-07 AUSTIN, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2196S

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

HUGHES 269A

Year of manufacture

1968 · 13 years old at event

TCDS

4H12 · SCHWEIZER RSG LLC

Engine

LYCOMING HIO-360-B1A (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20090529

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1DE2C

Registrant of record

HERNANDEZ CHRISTOPHER A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2196S Cessna T210L 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 T210L · N2196S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

Business

Airport

TIMMS AIRPARK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000021061157

Total time

1,440 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

530

Age

29

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 1958. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1958.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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