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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW81DQD32

1981-08-16 EL PASO, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9912H

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING B75N1

Year of manufacture

1943 · 38 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR W670 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19680925

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ADD900

Registrant of record

AEROSPACE TRUST MANAGEMENT LLC TRUSTEE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9912H Boeing B75N1 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

BOEING B75N1 · N9912H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

EL PASO INTL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

180° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000075-7213

Total time

5,831 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,117

Age

36

Investigator remarks

WND GSTG 25KTS.

Cause factors

64/A/28 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/H J
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Joint cause

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 1699. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1699.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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