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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW81DRG30

1981-04-20 SANDIA, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N51452 Maule M4-210 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

MAULE M4-210 · N51452

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B0

Operator type

D

Airport

ARROWHEAD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

130° / 14 kt

Temp

74° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000001109C

Total time

6,750 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

EA (EA)

Total hours

6,513

Age

46

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/51 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN ENGINE 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 0493. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0493.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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