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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW74FQG28

1973-11-17 SHALLOWATER, Texas, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7000S

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

NORTH AMERICAN AT-6G

Year of manufacture

1958 · 15 years old at event

Engine

P&W R1340 SERIES (600 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19580520

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A956F7

Registrant of record

POEPPELMAN ELIZABETH

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7000S N.AMERICAN AT-6 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

N.AMERICAN AT-6 · N7000S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

SHALLOWATER

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

240° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000049-3306

Total time

9,423 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

8,225

Age

56

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LOWED FLD.SLIGHT NOSE DN ATTITUDE.

Investigator remarks

AFT LIFT-OFF SETTLED,BOUNCED,THEN CRASHED INTO P

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3296. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3296.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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