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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC72DCJ70

1972-05-26 BROKEN BOW, Nebraska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4895Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA T210N

Year of manufacture

1980

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-520 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19800422

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A60D26

Registrant of record

KEATING GEORGE W

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4895Y Piper PA-25 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

PIPER PA-25 · N4895Y

Damage

Substantial

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

BROKEN

Wind

160° / 9 kt

Temp

77° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000025-4605

Total time

1,110 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,261

Age

22

Investigator remarks

SPRAYING TREES FOR CANKERWORMS.

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED 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 1889. Source file NTSB_1972_3_1889.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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