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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD75FLJ25

1975-05-04 LOUISBURG, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N44215 Taylorcraft BC12-D 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

TAYLORCRAFT BC12-D · N44215

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

BALL FIELD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

315° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000010015

Total time

1,190 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

119

Age

39

Investigator remarks

STRUCK ACFT PARKED NEAR RWY.WIND GUSTING 20K.

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
64/B/82 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 0792. Source file NTSB_1975_3_0792.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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