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DEN80FQA23

1980-03-29 · ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N6396L has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (ZIPLINE INTERNATIONAL INC P2 ZIP), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
RAVEN RX-6 · N6396L
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
D
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B1

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR
Temp
38° F

Aircraft history

Serial number
00000RX6-105
Total time
204 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Airline transport
Total hours
6
Age
23

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

L LOAD CABLE & 1 ARM OF RIGID GONDOLA STRUCTURE.

Investigator remarks

COLLIDED W PWR LINE.ELECTRIC ARC CUT THRU 1 STEE

Cause factors

  • 64/A/15 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 83/J/I J
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint cause

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

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 0521. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0521.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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