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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW70FRG56

1970-06-27 HARLINGEN, Texas, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6518D N AMERICAN P-51 Fatal

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

N AMERICAN P-51 · N6518D

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

150° / 15 kt

Temp

92° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000044-63872

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

5,000

Age

34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

.ACFT STRUCK GND IN DIVE,DESTROYED BY FIRE.

Investigator remarks

ACFT STALLED IN STEEP TURN,SPIN ROTATION STOPPED

Cause factors

64/C/16 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED 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 1792. Source file NTSB_1970_3_1792.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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