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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW75DQG08

1974-07-19 FLOYDADA, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5CC

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CIRRUS DESIGN SR22T

Year of manufacture

2018

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-550-K (315 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20180328

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A63573

Registrant of record

MOON APE LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

SCHEMP CIRRUS · N5CC

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

95° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000267

Total time

296 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

3,570

Age

41

Investigator remarks

LOST LIFT & LND IN COTTON FLD.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/27 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 83/J/D J
    TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION 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 2081. Source file NTSB_1974_3_2081.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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