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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN75AD031

1974-12-10 PROVO, Utah, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N361B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA B300

Seats / Engines

19 seats · 2 engines

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4101C

Registrant of record

TEXTRON AVIATION INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N361B Beech H35 Fatal

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 H35 · N361B

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Day

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Z

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000D-5067

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Age

45

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OVERED FRM LAKE 12/14/74-INJ INDEX PRESUMED.

Investigator remarks

MAIN WHEEL AND HEADREST IDENTIFIED FRM N361B REC

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/88 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER 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 3956. Source file NTSB_1974_3_3956.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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