Event DEN76FQA30

1976-01-10 EL VADO, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9907Z Beech TC-45G 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

BEECH TC-45G · N9907Z

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Z

Weather

Z

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

EL VADO STATE PRK

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000AF-205

Pilot

Certificate

ZA (ZA)

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TO DESTROY EVIDENCE.HIT BARREL ON ROLLOUT.

Investigator remarks

TRANSPORT OF CONTRABAND.ACFT PROBABLY SET AFIRE

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
80/L/BC L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW ON RUNWAY

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 0182. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0182.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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