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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW77DQG50

1977-07-31 SAN ANGELO, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N109DW

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH 58P

Year of manufacture

1976 · 1 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-520 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20000805

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A02683

Registrant of record

AERO EAST USA LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

M.B.B. 109 · N109DW

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

MATHIS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

160° / 12 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000577

Total time

1,500 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,050

Age

31

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 1885. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1885.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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