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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW75FRD14

1974-10-27 BELLE CHASSE, Louisiana, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N460SR

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CIRRUS DESIGN SR22

Year of manufacture

2008

TCDS

A00009CH · CIRRUS DESIGN CORP

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-550-N (310 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20251209

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A59B3B

Registrant of record

BUCHMAN BARRY JOSEPH

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N460SR Beech 35-B33 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

BEECH 35-B33 · N460SR

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000CD761

Total time

3,946 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,500

Age

49

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

WL RIVETS LOOSE,IMPULSE COUPLING INOP.LND ON HIWAY

Investigator remarks

MALFUNCTIONING MAGNETO CAUSED LOSS OF ENG PWR.PA

Cause factors

74/C/BA C
POWERPLANT MAGNETOS Cause
88/C/AV C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LOOSE,PART/FITTING Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
84/B/7 B
MISCELLANEOUS EVASIVE MANEUVER TO AVOID COLLISION
83/K/Y K
TERRAIN OTHER 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 3196. Source file NTSB_1974_3_3196.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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