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FTW81FRG34

1981-05-06 · LOS FRESNOS, Texas, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
BEECH C50 · N3712B
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
E
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
DD

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number
0000000CH146
Total time
4,485 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
3,700
Age
47

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ORITY.L ENG COIL HIT BY BULLET.UN RET GEAR.PWR LN.

Investigator remarks

PLT RETRIEVING STOLEN ACFT FM MEXICO WO LCL AUTH

Cause factors

  • 74/C/KC C
    POWERPLANT FOREIGN OBJECT DAMAGE Cause
  • 70/K/CB K
    AIRFRAME NORMAL RETRACTION/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY Joint factor
  • 88/K/95 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Joint factor

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 0676. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0676.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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