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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW81DQD11

1980-12-15 EL PASO, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N714B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

VAN'S AIRCRAFT RV-10

Year of manufacture

2020

Engine

LYCOMING YIO-540 SERIE (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20200823

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A98B02

Registrant of record

ARSENAULT MIKE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N714B Beech A35 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

BEECH A35 · N714B

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

62° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000D1719

Total time

3,524 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

15,822

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

8 BEARING EXPOSED,BALLS DRY/GALLED.HIT UNKN OBJECT

Investigator remarks

JACK PLATE SEPD FM HARTZELL,HC-12X20-7D PROP,A-3

Cause factors

74/C/FD C
POWERPLANT HYDRAULIC PITCH CONTROL MECHANISM Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
88/C/80 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LACK OF LUBRICATION-SPECIFIC PART,NOT SYSTEM Cause
88/C/CN C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SCORED Cause
88/C/CI C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERHEATED Cause
88/L/49 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT
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 2973. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2973.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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