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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX74OL039

1973-10-27 LAS CRUCES, MX, Mexico None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9392R AERO COMDR 500-A 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

AERO COMDR 500-A · N9392R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

LAS CRUCES

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 10 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0500A-909-18

Total time

2,405 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,031

Age

39

Investigator remarks

INVEST UNDER JURISDICTION OF GOVT OF MEXICO.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 6 0045. Source file NTSB_1973_6_0045.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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