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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW75FPA25

1975-04-28 ADDISON, Texas, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N230Z

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

RC-DRONES VULCAN OCTOCOPTER

0

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A20ABF

Registrant of record

ECHO AERIALS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N230Z Lockheed PV-2 Serious

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

LOCKHEED PV-2 · N230Z

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

ADDISON

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

190° / 6 kt

Temp

81° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000151603

Total time

1,551 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,178

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ENG OIL,PROVED ERRONEOUS. FIRE ANT CONTROL.

Investigator remarks

PILOT FEATHERED LEFT PROPELLER DUE TO LOW LEVEL

Cause factors

64/C/20 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED
88/K/22 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH 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 1440. Source file NTSB_1975_3_1440.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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