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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN80DQD03

1979-11-18 DEMING, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N130T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28R-201

Year of manufacture

2003

Engine

LYCOMING IO-360-C1C6 (200 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20031015

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A07CDA

Registrant of record

LYNCH MACHINING LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N130T Beech A36 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

BEECH A36 · N130T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

PRIVATE RANCH

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / — kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000000E304

Total time

1,018 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,890

Age

56

Cause factors

64/A/25 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/94 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 3347. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3347.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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