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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW81FRG54

1981-07-28 BENAVIDES, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

UNKNOWN Beech B50 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

BEECH B50 · UNKNOWN

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Z

Kind of flying

DY

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

120° / 8 kt

Temp

78° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Pilot

Certificate

ZA (ZA)

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

BFR HITTING TREES AT END OF FLD.HAULING DRUGS.

Investigator remarks

DRG NGT LNDG IN HAY FLD,GND LOOPED ACFT TO STOP

Cause factors

64/C/35 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
88/B/DF B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL GROUND-WATER-LOOP-SWERVE
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 2630. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2630.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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