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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW73DPA12

1972-07-21 LA PAZ, MX, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7109N

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH D55

Year of manufacture

1967 · 5 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19671205

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A97FAD

Registrant of record

DERENDAL JUSTIN

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7109N Beech 95-D55 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 95-D55 · N7109N

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

PUNTA COLORADO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000TE-489

Total time

1,680 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

6,646

Age

48

Investigator remarks

INVESTIGATION UND JURISDICTION OF MEXICAN GOVT.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 6 0028. Source file NTSB_1972_6_0028.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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