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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW81FQA25

1981-04-20 TAOS, New Mexico, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5075Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH B36TC

Year of manufacture

2001

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-520 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20010502

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6570F

Registrant of record

ALKOTA OF KANSAS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5075Y Piper PA-23 Minor

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

PIPER PA-23 · N5075Y

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

TAOS MUNI

Kind of flying

DZ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000027-2092

Pilot

Certificate

ZA (ZA)

Investigator remarks

PILOT DEPARTED SCENE AND HAS NOT BEEN LOCATED.

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
88/B/AC B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE OF UNDETERMINED ORIGIN
88/K/51 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN ENGINE 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 0670. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0670.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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