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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW77FRG31

1977-03-25 SAN BENITO, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N281H

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PILATUS AIRCRAFT LTD PC-12/47

Year of manufacture

2007

Engine

P&W CANADA PT6A-67B (1200 hp)

Seats / Engines

12 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20070306

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2D261

Registrant of record

STERLING AIR SERVICE LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N281H Beech C45H 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 C45H · N281H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

SAN BENITO MUNI

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

130° / 3 kt

Temp

66° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000AF-694

Total time

8,171 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

25,000

Age

56

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FOUND IN TANK AFTER ACCIDENT.

Investigator remarks

PLT SHUT RT ENG DOWN DUE TO OIL EXHAUSTION. OIL

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/46 B
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED
64/B/07 B
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND
82/K/C K
WEATHER FOG 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 0759. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0759.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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