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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK75DXQ11

1974-07-28 OROVADA, Nevada, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1725S

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AERO COMMANDER 600 S-2D

Year of manufacture

1966 · 8 years old at event

Engine

P&W R1340 SERIES (600 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19670502

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A123B3

Registrant of record

SCHWEND BRIAN

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1725S Snow 600S2D 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 600S2D · N1725S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DH

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

360° / 3 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001325

Total time

2,373 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

8,080

Investigator remarks

PLT RPTD GRADUAL PWR FAILURE

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN

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 2063. Source file NTSB_1974_3_2063.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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