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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN71FQD27

1971-06-23 DEMING, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1258M Cessna T337E 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 T337E · N1258M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

H

Airport

DEMING MUNI

Kind of flying

DL

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

320° / 17 kt

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000337-01258

Total time

103 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,563

Age

36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

COND OF R QUARTERING HEADWIND GUSTING TO 28K.

Investigator remarks

PLT LND ON RAMP DUE WIND COND. APCH TOO SLOW FOR

Cause factors

64/C/50 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED SPEED Cause
82/C/H C
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Cause

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 2037. Source file NTSB_1971_3_2037.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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