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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW75AF028

1974-10-07 HENDERSON, Texas, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1999W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20J

Year of manufacture

1986

Engine

LYCOMING IO-360-A3B6D (200 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19851120

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A18D42

Registrant of record

WUNG JAY

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1999W Cessna 182A 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

CESSNA 182A · N1999W

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D9

Operator type

D

Airport

RUSK COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000034137

Total time

2,049 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

182

Age

55

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

E.CRASHED 2 MILES FM AIRPORT.

Investigator remarks

RCVRY DATE 10/24/74.DEP FROM LTD RWY ON DARK NIT

Cause factors

64/A/66 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SPATIAL DISORIENTATION 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 3331. Source file NTSB_1974_3_3331.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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