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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW75FRD60

1975-05-23 NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N99HN Mooney M22 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

MOONEY M22 · N99HN

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

130° / 15 kt

Temp

82° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000680011

Total time

985 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,114

Age

26

Investigator remarks

AIRCRAFT NOT RECOVERED FROM LAKE

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
88/K/88 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER 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 1153. Source file NTSB_1975_3_1153.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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