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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC73DCD56

1973-04-11 JEFFERSON, Iowa, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7148S

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 150H

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-200 SERIES (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19671110

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A98E6A

Registrant of record

JUPITER FLIGHT SERVICE AND INVESTING 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 150 · N7148S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Business

Airport

JEFFERSON

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-BELOW 1000 FEET

Wind

278° / 17 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015067848

Total time

1,344 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,162

Age

22

Investigator remarks

ACFT VEERED R HIT SNOWBANK.

Cause factors

  • 66/C/79 C
    DUAL STUDENT Cause
  • 64/C/30 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause
  • 80/B/BD B
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW WINDROWS
  • 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 0816. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0816.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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