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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC75AN023

1974-08-24 WHITEFIELD, New Hampshire, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5AM

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 414A

Year of manufacture

1979

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-520 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

8 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19791124

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6354A

Registrant of record

TEXAS LA FLYERS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

CESSNA 340 · N5AM

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

250° / 6 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000340-0010

Total time

790 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

6,000

Age

55

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LT PLAN AT 9000FT.HIT MTN SLOPE AT 4698FT ELEV.

Investigator remarks

WX BRIEF:NUMEROUS TSTMS ENRT.DEPARTED IFR,CNLD F

Cause factors

  • 64/C/27 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING Cause
  • 82/J/X J
    WEATHER THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY Joint cause
  • 82/J/L J
    WEATHER TURBULENCE, ASSOCIATED W/CLOUDS AND/OR THUNDERSTORMS Joint cause
  • 83/J/I J
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 3105. Source file NTSB_1974_3_3105.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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