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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW74FRG04

1973-07-21 HARLINGEN, Texas, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3699F Snow S2A 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

SNOW S2A · N3699F

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DG

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

PRIMERA

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001014

Total time

3,150 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

11,500

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OXIC CHEM IN PLTS FACE.

Investigator remarks

CHEM HOSE ROUTED THRU COCKPIT RUPTURED SPRAYNG T

Cause factors

68/C/J6 C
PERSONNEL OTHER Cause
76/C/CA C
INSTRUMENTS/EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES SPRAY,DUSTING EQUIPMENT Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
64/B/65 B
PILOT IN COMMAND PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENT
83/K/D K
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION Joint factor

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 2003. Source file NTSB_1973_3_2003.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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