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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW69A0077

1969-04-24 BIG SPRING, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N703M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH 200

Year of manufacture

1977

Engine

P&W CANADA PT6A-60A (1050 hp)

Seats / Engines

11 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19770610

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A960C6

Registrant of record

DAVIS AVIATION INC DBA

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N703M Beech E18S 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 E18S · N703M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

E

Airport

HOWARD COUNTY

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

120° / 20 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Total time

5,614 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

6,000

Age

49

Investigator remarks

L QUARTERING HEAD WIND 20K,GUSTS TO 30K.

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 0874. Source file NTSB_1969_3_0874.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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