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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW78FQD26

1978-07-15 EL PASO, Texas, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6928C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

NAVION NAVION B

Year of manufacture

1950 · 28 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING GO-435C&D SER (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19620711

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A93597

Registrant of record

HOUSE JAMES K

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6928C Navion B Minor

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

NAVION B · N6928C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Day

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

EL PASO INTL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

220° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000004-2224B

Total time

1,782 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

3,097

Age

55

Investigator remarks

PROPELLER SHAFT NUT LOCK PLATE.

Cause factors

74/C/FY C
POWERPLANT OTHER Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN
88/K/45 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WINDSHIELD,DIRTY,FOGGY,ETC.-RESTRICTED VISION 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 1656. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1656.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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