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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC75DCJ34

1974-10-16 PLATTSMOUTH, Nebraska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N10893 Cessna 150L 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

CESSNA 150L · N10893

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

PLATTSMOUTH MUNI

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015075114

Total time

606 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

14

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

A SMALL WASHOUT.

Investigator remarks

ACFT CAME TO REST INVERTED WHEN NOSEWHEEL ENTRD

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
80/B/BY B
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER

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 3446. Source file NTSB_1974_3_3446.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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