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DEN76DQD24

1976-05-07 · LORDSBURG, New Mexico, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N239 has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (RYAN AERONAUTICAL ST3KR, built 1943), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
CAMAIR 480 · N239
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
Business
Kind of flying
DD

Weather at impact

Sky
UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number
00000001-075

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
1,725
Age
31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

QUITE BRUSH.DENSITY ALT,7200FT. HIGH OIL USAGE ENG

Investigator remarks

LEFT ENG OIL SUPPLY EXHAUSTED.GEAR-UP LDG IN MES

Cause factors

  • 64/C/29 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
  • 88/C/81 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OIL EXHAUSTION-ENGINE LUBRICATION SYSTEM Cause
  • 88/B/DG B
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL WHEELS-UP
  • 83/K/D K
    TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION Joint factor
  • 82/K/W K
    WEATHER HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE Joint factor

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

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 0949. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0949.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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