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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN71FQA33

1970-11-30 RUIDOSO, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1214P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

COSTRUZIONI AERONAUTICHE TECNA P2012 TRAVELLER

Year of manufacture

2023

TCDS

A00076CE · COSTRUZIONI AERONAUTICHE TECNAM S P A

Engine

LYCOMING TEO-540-C1A (375 hp)

Seats / Engines

11 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20231221

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A05A5B

Registrant of record

PACIFIC AIR CHARTERS INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1214P Piper PA-23 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

PIPER PA-23 · N1214P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

RUIDOSO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000023-233

Total time

1,759 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

6,000

Age

43

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

GR EXTENSION-POSSIBLE EFFECTS ON CONTROL OF ACFT.

Investigator remarks

R FRONT HORIZ STAB FITTING P/N170993-00.DELAYED

Cause factors

70/C/D3 C
AIRFRAME HORIZONTAL STABILIZER, ATTACHMENTS Cause
82/C/K C
WEATHER TURBULENCE IN FLIGHT,CLEAR AIR Cause
88/C/94 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Cause
88/K/AQ K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND Joint factor

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 4521. Source file NTSB_1970_3_4521.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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