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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN77DQA18

1977-02-12 GALLUP, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N81326

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

FAIRCHILD 24R-46

Year of manufacture

1946 · 31 years old at event

Engine

FAIRCHILD 6-410 SERIES (175 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19720412

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB173E

Registrant of record

CAMP TED A

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

FAIRCHILD 24R-46 · N81326

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

SENATOR CLARKE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

230° / 9 kt

Temp

50° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000R46226

Total time

968 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

54

Age

28

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

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 0319. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0319.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.