FTW81DRD10
1980-12-17 · SULPHUR, Louisiana, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed
N62418 has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (FUSSY B/FUSSY M TITAN TORNADO II, built 1995), which was not involved in this event.
Aircraft involved
Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)
- Aircraft
- BOEING 75 · N62418
- Damage
- Substantial
- Craft type
- Airplane
- Classification
- Accident
- Light condition
- Dawn
- Weather
- VMC
- Phase of flight
- C0
- Operator type
- Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)
- Airport
- AG STRIP
- Kind of flying
- CB
Weather at impact
- Sky
- CLEAR
- Temp
- 75° F
Aircraft history
- Serial number
- 0000075-2650
- Total time
- 8,436 hrs
Pilot
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Total hours
- 2,190
- Age
- 28
Cause factors
- 64/C/79 C PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
- 83/K/F K TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor
Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).
Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket
3 3411.
Source file
NTSB_1980_3_3411.txt.
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