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Event FTW82DQA11

1981-12-13 GALLUP, New Mexico, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5566M Raven RX-7 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

RAVEN RX-7 · N5566M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

D

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EY

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

135° / 6 kt

Temp

40° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000RX7-185

Total time

63 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

60

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

MESA.

Investigator remarks

TWO STU PLTS.ENCTRD DWNDFT & STRUCK SIDE OF ROCK

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/M J
WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS Joint cause
83/J/F J
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 3379. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3379.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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