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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN78DQD36

1978-09-09 DEMING, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N757PC

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 525B

Year of manufacture

2007

Engine

WILLIAMS FJ44-3A

Seats / Engines

8 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20071001

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA3552

Registrant of record

SAM AIR 188 LLC

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

CESSNA 152 · N757PC

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015279887

Total time

725 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

28

Age

23

Cause factors

  • 64/C/03 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND BECAME LOST/DISORIENTED Cause
  • 88/C/63 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
  • 83/B/A B
    TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND
  • 88/3/AW 3
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 3

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 2540. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2540.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.