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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA74AM082

1974-03-21 PUNTA GORDA, Florida, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N74774

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

ROBINSON HELICOPTER R22 BETA

Year of manufacture

2005

TCDS

H10WE · ROBINSON HELICOPTER CO

Engine

LYCOMING O-360 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20050929

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA0FF5

Registrant of record

ALYESKA HELICOPTERS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N74774 Mooney M20B 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

MOONEY M20B · N74774

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D9

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OBSCURATION

Wind

130° / 3 kt

Temp

67° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001774

Total time

1,467 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

652

Age

51

Cause factors

64/A/64 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INCAPACITATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/65 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PILOT SUFFERED HEART ATTACK 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 1041. Source file NTSB_1974_3_1041.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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