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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN80FTC03

1979-12-23 ROCK SPRINGS, Wyoming, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6DM

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CIRRUS DESIGN SR22T

Year of manufacture

2021

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-550-K (315 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20210623

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7C2E4

Registrant of record

NORTHSTAR AVIATION SERVICES LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6DM Beech B95A Minor

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 B95A · N6DM

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

SWEETWATER CO.

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

8° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000TD489

Total time

3,975 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

236

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

47FT.PLT RPRTD PARTIAL LOSS OF PWR IN BOTH ENGS.

Investigator remarks

ATTEMPTED TKOF WO ENG TURBOS ENGAGED.RWY ELEV 67

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
82/L/W L
WEATHER HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE

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 3700. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3700.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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