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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW76DQH10

1976-09-16 DALHART, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N21FS

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH 3NM

Year of manufacture

1952 · 24 years old at event

Engine

P&W R-985 SERIES (450 hp)

Seats / Engines

10 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19930218

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1B7B7

Registrant of record

PLANE FUN INC TR TRUSTEE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N21FS Beech A23-19 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 A23-19 · N21FS

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C8

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

210° / 14 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000MB606

Total time

1,343 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

8,175

Age

32

Investigator remarks

SIM ENG FAILURE DRG TKOF.

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
88/C/85 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS Cause
83/B/A B
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND
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 2599. Source file NTSB_1976_3_2599.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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