NTSB CAROL · Event
Event OAK74FVG43
Registry · N6733C
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
EWING-STITS SA6B
Year of manufacture
1957 · 17 years old at event
Engine
CONT MOTOR C90-8F (95 hp)
Seats / Engines
2 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
20140913
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A8E9A1
Registrant of record
BERRY MICHAEL C
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
STITS SA6B · N6733C
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D7
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
CLEAR
Wind
120° / 10 kt
Temp
70° F
Aircraft history
Serial number
0000000P1035
Total time
581 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
461
Age
60
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
NE ALCOHOL LVL 0.14%.
Investigator remarks
LOW LEVEL ACROBATICS OVR LAKE.ACFT SANK.PLTS URI
Cause factors
- 64/A/16 A PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 64/J/65 J PILOT IN COMMAND PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENT Joint cause
- 88/J/67 J MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ALCOHOLIC IMPAIRMENT OF EFFICIENCY AND JUDGMENT Joint cause
- 88/J/14 J MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS UNWARRANTED LOW FLYING Joint cause
- 88/J/88 J MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER 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 1061.
Source file
NTSB_1974_3_1061.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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