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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD74DKM22

1973-10-19 INDIAN TRAIL, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N16005

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

DOUGLAS DC3C-S1C3G

Year of manufacture

1942 · 31 years old at event

Engine

P & W R-1830 SERIES (1350 hp)

Seats / Engines

32 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19920731

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0F424

Registrant of record

N1944M 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

CESSNA 150 · N16005

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

GOOSE CREEK

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

090° / 5 kt

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015073404

Total time

698 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

21

Age

21

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LEV CTL STRUCK RWY ON NOSE GR.

Investigator remarks

AT APRX 30FT ABV RWY A/S LOW PLT PUSHED FWD ON E

Cause factors

  • 64/C/25 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
  • 64/C/23 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 3453. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3453.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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