NTSB CAROL · Event
Event FTW77DQG50
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 ↗.
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- Semantic Scholar 2017 · Article (BMC Psychiatry)
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