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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW73FQD12

1972-12-30 EL PASO, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N316HW HELIO ACFT H-391B 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

HELIO ACFT H-391B · N316HW

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

EL PASO INTL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

330° / 17 kt

Temp

45° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000000-066

Total time

2,676 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

323

Age

27

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
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 2644. Source file NTSB_1972_3_2644.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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