NTSB CAROL · Event
Event DEN72FQA18
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 210 · N9649T
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Cruise — level (EA)
Operator type
Business
Airport
RUIDOSO
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED
Aircraft history
Serial number
000000057449
Total time
1,655 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
218
Age
50
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
.PLT UN CHECK DSCNT HIT TREES.DNSTY ALT ABT 9500FT
Investigator remarks
DRG STEEP TURN TO BASE ACFT ENTERED HI SINK RATE
Cause factors
- 64/A/16 A PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 64/A/08 A PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 82/J/W J WEATHER HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE Joint 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 1992.
Source file
NTSB_1971_3_1992.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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- NASA NTRS 2019 · Contractor Report (CR)
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- arXiv 2012 · arXiv preprint
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- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2001 · Journal article (JAAER)
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- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 1992 · Journal article (JAAER)
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