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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW82FRG17

1981-12-20 BROWNSVILLE, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4JP

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

TEAM INC ROCKET F-1

Year of manufacture

2004

Engine

LYCOMING IO-540-C4B5 (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20130222

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4A8C5

Registrant of record

PREISS AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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 207 · N4JP

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

BROWNSVILLE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 20 kt

Temp

78° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000020700410

Total time

1,425 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,468

Age

39

Investigator remarks

INTERNAL ENG FAILURE.COLLIDED WITH DEAD COW.

Cause factors

  • 74/C/AY C
    POWERPLANT OTHER Cause
  • 64/B/15 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS

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 3134. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3134.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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