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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW73DRD29

1973-05-19 IOWA, Louisiana, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N62418

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

FUSSY B/FUSSY M TITAN TORNADO II

Year of manufacture

1995

Engine

BOMBARDIER ROTAX (ALL)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19961016

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A827B5

Registrant of record

FUSSY BERNIE P

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N62418 Boeing A75 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

BOEING A75 · N62418

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DH

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000075-2650

Total time

6,734 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,506

Age

30

Investigator remarks

HIT 18IN HI LEVEE.

Cause factors

64/A/54 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/79 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SUNGLARE 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 1295. Source file NTSB_1973_3_1295.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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