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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW79FQG16

1979-01-29 AMARILLO, Texas, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N23644 Beech 58P Serious

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 58P · N23644

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

140° / 18 kt

Temp

19° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000TJ-132

Total time

234 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

4,166

Age

37

Investigator remarks

COLLIDED WITH CACTUS AND SMALL BRUSH.

Cause factors

74/C/AB C
POWERPLANT CRANKSHAFT Cause
88/C/36 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause
88/C/81 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OIL EXHAUSTION-ENGINE LUBRICATION SYSTEM Cause
88/L/48 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FAILURE OF TWO OR MORE ENGINES
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 0582. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0582.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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