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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW71FRD41

1971-04-25 OPELOUSAS, Louisiana, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N49731

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING E75

Engine

CONT MOTOR W670 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19940124

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A62CF4

Registrant of record

ELLIOTT WARBIRDS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N49731 Boeing A75N1 Serious

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

BOEING A75N1 · N49731

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DK

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

ST.LANDRY PARISH

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

130° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000075-4360

Total time

5,457 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

510

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PLT AND PAX SAID ENG SPUTTERED.NO MALFUNCT FOUND.

Investigator remarks

PRACTISING CROP DUSTING MANEUVERS. NO LOAD ABD.

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED

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 0424. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0424.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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