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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD75FLJ10

1974-09-02 GRANTHAM, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4442N

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING A75N1(PT17)

Year of manufacture

1943 · 31 years old at event

Engine

P&W R-985 SERIES (450 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20040402

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A55C24

Registrant of record

SHELTON GREG TRUSTEE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4442N Boeing A75-N1 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

BOEING A75-N1 · N4442N

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

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000075-7893

Total time

2,132 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,200

Age

24

Investigator remarks

SPRAYING LAST FLD STALLED ACFT IN STEEP TURN.

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/DC J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LOAD NOT JETTISONED Joint cause

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 2959. Source file NTSB_1974_3_2959.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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