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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN76DQD24

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

Registry · N239

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

RYAN AERONAUTICAL ST3KR

Year of manufacture

1943 · 33 years old at event

Engine

KINNER R5 SERIES (160 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19530423

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A229EE

Registrant of record

GERTSEN RONALD HANS

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

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). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

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

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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