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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW81DQA19

1981-04-02 LAS VEGAS, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N106A Navion B 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

NAVION B · N106A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

210° / 20 kt

Temp

51° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

NAV-4-2294-B

Total time

2,592 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,035

Age

26

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PM.

Investigator remarks

DRAG FM FAILED ENG DRIVEN GENERATOR REDUCE ENG R

Cause factors

74/C/HB C
POWERPLANT GENERATORS Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 0672. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0672.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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