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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X3190

1964-08-03 EASTON, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N74574

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

ROBINSON HELICOPTER R22 BETA

Year of manufacture

2005

TCDS

H10WE · ROBINSON HELICOPTER CO

Engine

LYCOMING O-360 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20050719

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA0887

Registrant of record

BURRELL HELICOPTERS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N74574 Mooney MK21 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

MOONEY MK21 · N74574

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

EASTON

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Total time

754 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

B2 (B2)

Total hours

1,144

Age

444

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 2329. Source file NTSB_1964_3_2329.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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