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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW79FQG40

1979-05-24 DALHART, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6213K

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

YAKOVLEV YAK 52

Year of manufacture

1987

Engine

AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20021231

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A81CBF

Registrant of record

IVERSON STEVEN E

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6213K Cessna 150M 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

CESSNA 150M · N6213K

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

110° / 14 kt

Temp

66° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000150-77589

Total time

1,831 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,000

Age

30

Investigator remarks

LANDED IN A WHEAT FIELD

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN

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 1720. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1720.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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