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DEN80FA013

1979-12-22 · SANTA FE, New Mexico, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
ROCKWELL 500B · N6194X
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
IMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
E
Kind of flying
DD

Weather at impact

Sky
OBSCURATION
Wind
240° / 15 kt
Temp
40° F

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000105544
Total time
8,776 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Flight instructor (CFI)
Total hours
1,340
Age
24

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NOT FAMILIAR W HIGH TERRAIN IN AREA OR MVA.

Investigator remarks

SANTA FE WX OBS REPT MT TOPS OBSURED.CONTROLLER

Cause factors

  • 64/A/26 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IFR OPERATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 68/J/G5 J
    PERSONNEL ISSUED IMPROPER OR CONFLICTING INSTRUCTIONS Joint cause

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

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 4013. Source file NTSB_1979_3_4013.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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