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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN79FQA46

1979-08-11 RUIDOSO, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N732UZ Cessna T210M 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

CESSNA T210M · N732UZ

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

RUIDOSO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000T2106610

Total time

357 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,000

Age

50

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ICK-UP DME UNIT THAT FELL TO FLOOR.

Investigator remarks

ACFT LNDD HARD & BOUNCED AS PLT REACHED DWN TO P

Cause factors

64/A/25 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/J/08 J
PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT Joint cause
76/J/BH J
INSTRUMENTS/EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES DME Joint cause
88/J/AV J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LOOSE,PART/FITTING Joint cause

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 3860. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3860.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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