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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW81FPA13

1981-05-25 MESQUITE, 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 500 · N44RD

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

HUDSON

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

180° / 10 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000500-334

Total time

844 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,400

Age

29

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/K/BA K
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES WET RUNWAY Joint factor
  • 80/K/BK K
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES POORLY MAINTAINED RUNWAY SURFACE 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 0678. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0678.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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