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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN75AD016

1974-09-29 PARKER, Colorado, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N11945

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AMERICAN GENERAL ACFT CORP AG5B

Year of manufacture

1991

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19911113

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A050A4

Registrant of record

SCHUCK DARYL J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

CESSNA 150L · N11945

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Z

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

210° / 7 kt

Temp

72° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015075723

Total time

410 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

66

Age

24

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PLT FLEW 2 HRS LAST 90 DAYS.

Investigator remarks

ACFT IMPACTD NR VERTICAL NOSE DOWN.NO WITNESSES.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/J/31 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT 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 2827. Source file NTSB_1974_3_2827.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.