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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW79FA073

1979-04-20 BROWNSVILLE, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N711BR

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CIRRUS DESIGN SR22T

Year of manufacture

2025

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-550-K (315 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20250404

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A97FED

Registrant of record

RODROCK HOLDINGS II 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

LOCKHEED 18 · N711BR

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

Business

Airport

BROWNSVILLE INTL

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

120° / 10 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002208

Total time

13,243 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

6,000

Age

34

Investigator remarks

APPROX 3700LBS OVER MAX CERT G/W.

Cause factors

  • 74/C/DG C
    POWERPLANT OIL COOLERS Cause
  • 88/C/95 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
  • 88/C/81 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OIL EXHAUSTION-ENGINE LUBRICATION SYSTEM Cause
  • 64/B/29 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING
  • 88/B/76 B
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY LOADED AIRCRAFT-WEIGHT-AND/OR C.G.
  • 88/B/DG B
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL WHEELS-UP

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 1149. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1149.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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