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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW76DQH05

1976-08-28 DALHART, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9477M Cessna 210K 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

CESSNA 210K · N9477M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

DALHART MUNICIPAL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

040° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000021059377

Total time

2,416 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,085

Age

33

Cause factors

64/C/27 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN
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 2841. Source file NTSB_1976_3_2841.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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