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Event FTW76FRG77

1976-07-28 LOS EBANOS, Texas, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9421R Snow S2A 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

SNOW S2A · N9421R

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DK

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

135° / 9 kt

Temp

96° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000001051A

Total time

2,993 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,096

Age

43

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED 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 3753. Source file NTSB_1976_3_3753.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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