NTSB CAROL · Event
Event UNK65X0338
Registry · N9954C
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
SNYDER STANLEY L SSJ-3 KITTEN
Engine
ROTAX 503 SERIES (52 hp)
Seats / Engines
1 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
20190621
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S ADE81D
Registrant of record
LEE HERBERT M
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
CALLAIR A5 · N9954C
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Takeoff — initial climb (C1)
Operator type
Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)
Airport
MARIAN AIRPARK
Kind of flying
CB
Weather at impact
Sky
CLEAR
Wind
360° / 5 kt
Temp
80° F
Aircraft history
Total time
2,130 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
2,400
Age
34
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 3263.
Source file
NTSB_1964_3_3263.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
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- arXiv 2025 · arXiv preprint
Impact of Forecast Stability on Navigational Contrail Avoidance
MMitigating contrail-induced warming by re-routing flights around contrail-forming regions requires accurate and stable forecasts of the state of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2024 · Journal article (JAAER)
Application of Density Altitude Climatology to General Aviation Impacts
Density altitude (DA) plays a key role in flight safety because it helps pilots anticipate poor aircraft performance when temperatures are warmer than standard.
- arXiv 2022 · arXiv preprint
Extended analysis of the effects of the Sumatra topography on downstream low-level vortex development over the Indian Ocean
Fine et al. (2016, hereafter F16) investigated the potential role of Sumatra Island, as well as the Malay Peninsula and Java, in creating terrain-induced circulations over the Indian Ocean (IO) that s…
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