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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN72FQD34

1972-06-30 DEMING, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1918B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

LUSCOMBE 8F

Year of manufacture

1950 · 22 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C90 SERIES (95 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20040826

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A16F54

Registrant of record

BAUER RYAN K

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1918B Luscombe 8F 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

LUSCOMBE 8F · N1918B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000006345

Total time

1,462 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

154

Age

40

Investigator remarks

HIT SAND DUNE SHORT OF ROAD.

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/23 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MISCALCULATED FUEL CONSUMPTION Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN

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 2132. Source file NTSB_1972_3_2132.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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