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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW79FRD36

1979-05-28 HOLMWOOD, Louisiana, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N65368

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING B75N1

Year of manufacture

1943 · 36 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR R670-SERIES (225 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20130320

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A89B2A

Registrant of record

AIR CAV HELICOPTERS 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

BOEING 75 · N65368

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DJ

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

180° / 12 kt

Temp

82° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000075-7061

Total time

6,609 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,555

Age

32

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 0821. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0821.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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