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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC75DCJ10

1974-07-19 CAMPBELL, Nebraska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4979C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SNOW S2A

Year of manufacture

1959 · 15 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR W670 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19591009

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A62DAF

Registrant of record

TRISSELL FLYING SER INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4979C Snow S2A 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

SNOW S2A · N4979C

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

CLEAR

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001022

Total time

3,000 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

5,471

Age

45

Investigator remarks

SPRAYING MILO.

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 2014. Source file NTSB_1974_3_2014.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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