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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN79DA017

1979-01-26 TAOS, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3MF

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH F90

Year of manufacture

1983

Engine

P&W CANADA PT6A-135A (750 hp)

Seats / Engines

10 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20160901

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A31BB9

Registrant of record

LARK LAND & CATTLE INC

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

HAWKER-SDLY 125 · N3MF

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

TA0S MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000250-93

Total time

6,308 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

8,335

Age

36

Cause factors

  • 64/C/25 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
  • 64/B/79 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL
  • 88/L/94 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE

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 0628. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0628.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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