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DEN75DQD28

1975-06-12 · STEINS, New Mexico, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
BEECH TC-45G · N9430Z
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Z
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number
0000000AF-73

Pilot

Certificate
ZA (ZA)

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

HIT DITCH. ACFT ABANDONED. INJ INDEX PRESUMED.

Investigator remarks

ILLICT TRANS OF MARIJUANA. LND ON DRY LAKE BED &

Cause factors

  • 64/C/29 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
  • 64/C/32 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
  • 88/C/63 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
  • 83/K/F K
    TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 1415. Source file NTSB_1975_3_1415.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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