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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW81FRG24

1981-03-06 SMITHVILLE, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N100AW

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172

Year of manufacture

1956 · 25 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-300 SER (145 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560317

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A004C9

Registrant of record

DE LA TORRE ALFONSO JR

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N100AW Swearingen SA26T 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

SWEARINGEN SA26T · N100AW

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

SMITHVILLE

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000116

Total time

2,898 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

11,612

Age

61

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ARTED AS ACFT STARTED TKOF ROLL.

Investigator remarks

TAXIED TO RWY WITH ONLY R ENG OPERATING.L ENG ST

Cause factors

64/C/33 C
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 0287. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0287.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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