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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD74FIA10

1974-04-12 WASHINGTON, District of Columbia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N22MP

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CIRRUS DESIGN SR22

Year of manufacture

2025

TCDS

A00009CH · CIRRUS DESIGN CORP

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-550-N (310 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20250930

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1DFC9

Registrant of record

VSMS SERVICES LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N22MP Bell 47G4A None

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

BELL 47G4A · N22MP

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C2

Operator type

I

Airport

ANACOSTIA

Kind of flying

DL

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

180° / 11 kt

Temp

52° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000007757

Total time

3,304 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

206

Age

28

Investigator remarks

R FLOAT/SKID STRUCK LNDG PLATFORM.

Cause factors

64/A/28 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/31 A
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT 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 0679. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0679.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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