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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN79FA047

1979-06-26 HUMBLE CITY, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7253C Lockheed PV-2 None

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

LOCKHEED PV-2 · N7253C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Day

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

H

Airport

ABANDONED ARMY

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000037184

Total time

2,532 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

11,000

Age

39

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PROP GOV OIL.R ENG LOST PWR 5MIN LATER.

Investigator remarks

L ENG RPM SURGE,FEATHERED.METAL FLAKES FOUND IN

Cause factors

74/C/FG C
POWERPLANT GOVERNORS Cause
74/C/KE C
POWERPLANT DETONATION Cause
88/C/83 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OIL CONTAMINATION Cause
88/B/DG B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL WHEELS-UP
88/L/48 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FAILURE OF TWO OR MORE ENGINES

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 2196. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2196.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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