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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW71DQG78

1971-06-05 BIG SPRING, Texas, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7783V

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AERO COMMANDER CALLAIR A-9B

Year of manufacture

1970 · 1 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING TI0-540 SER (310 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19700514

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA8994

Registrant of record

WARHOL PETER J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7783V Callair A-9B 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

CALLAIR A-9B · N7783V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

EDWARDS RANCH

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001536

Total time

110 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

HA (HA)

Total hours

6,000

Investigator remarks

ENCOUNTERED DUST DEVIL.

Cause factors

82/C/N C
WEATHER LOCAL WHIRLWIND 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 1826. Source file NTSB_1971_3_1826.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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