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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN73AD037

1973-02-10 ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N24578 Beech A24R Fatal

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

BEECH A24R · N24578

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

DC

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000MC-128

Total time

126 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

5,724

Age

52

Investigator remarks

FLT PHASE UNK.

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 0104. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0104.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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