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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW77FQG13

1977-02-27 AMARILLO, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N910Q

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

COMPAGNIE DAHER TBM 700

Year of manufacture

2019

Engine

P&W CANADA PT6A66D (850 hp)

Seats / Engines

7 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20190402

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC9809

Registrant of record

W E F AIR INC

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

BEECH 65 · N910Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

225° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000LC-111

Total time

5,374 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

6,654

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ACARD OBSCURED,PAINT.PLTS ONLY FLT IN B-65 MODEL.

Investigator remarks

L MAIN EMPTY,R MAIN 1-2IN,AUXS FULL.FUEL MGMT PL

Cause factors

  • 64/C/01 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION W/KNOWN DEFICIENCIES IN EQUIPMENT Cause
  • 64/C/31 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT Cause
  • 64/C/32 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
  • 88/C/96 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION 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 0565. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0565.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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