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Event IAD74AI053

1974-03-17 BOWIE, Maryland, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5245K

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172P

Year of manufacture

1980

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19800623

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A69ADB

Registrant of record

PERUN AV LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5245K Navion B 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

NAVION B · N5245K

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

FREEWAY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

320° / 14 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

NAV-4-42145B

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

680

Age

56

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

00FT S OF RWY.FLT DPTD FLL ABT 0852 HRS.

Investigator remarks

MDT TURB FCST FOR AREA.ACFT STRUCK TREES APRX 22

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
64/B/82 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND
82/L/M L
WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS
88/L/62 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PILOT FATIGUE
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 0645. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0645.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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