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DEN78FTM21

1978-05-29 · WENDOVER, Utah, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
BEDE BD5 · N549
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Takeoff — initial climb (C1)
Operator type
D
Airport
WENDOVER
Kind of flying
DB

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000004618
Total time
1 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
244
Age
49

Investigator remarks

HIRTH 650 ENGINE.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/J/31 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT Joint cause

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

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 1398. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1398.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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