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DEN78FQA22

1978-05-13 · GALLUP, New Mexico, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
BEECH 24 · N9362S
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dusk
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
B0
Operator type
Z
Airport
DIRT ROAD
Kind of flying
DY

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000MC-356

Pilot

Certificate
ZA (ZA)

Investigator remarks

TRANSPORTING MARIJUANA.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/54 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/26 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS STOLEN OR UNAUTHORIZED USE OF AIRCRAFT Joint cause

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

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 1811. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1811.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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