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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN72FQA38

1972-04-16 TAOS, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7572F

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CHAMPION 7KCAB

Year of manufacture

1969 · 3 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING IO-320 SERIES (150 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19691219

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA36AE

Registrant of record

KINDER MARK E

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7572F Champion 7KCAB 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

CHAMPION 7KCAB · N7572F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

TAOS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 10 kt

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000230-70

Total time

150 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

108

Age

45

Investigator remarks

GUSTING TO 15K.

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 1480. Source file NTSB_1972_3_1480.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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