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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN70DQD11

1970-04-17 DEMING, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N72509

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

DAVID B SMUCK 42-20

Year of manufacture

2017

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20170320

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A9B899

Registrant of record

AUSTIN AERONAUTS INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N72509 Cessna 140A 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 140A · N72509

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

D

Airport

DEMING MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

270° / 38 kt

Temp

71° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000009679

Total time

4,000 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

115

Age

37

Investigator remarks

WINDS GUSTING 50K. WING WALKERS UNAVAILABLE.

Cause factors

82/A/H A
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 1959. Source file NTSB_1970_3_1959.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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