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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI78FEC13

1978-02-06 TROY, Michigan, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6704Y Piper PA-23 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

PIPER PA-23 · N6704Y

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Day

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B2

Operator type

D

Airport

TROY EXECUTIVE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

270° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000027-4030

Total time

2,176 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

3,085

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

KOF FOR UNDETERMINED REASON.

Investigator remarks

CABIN HEATER IGNITED ACFT DRG TAXI FRM ABORTED T

Cause factors

75/A/EY A
SYSTEMS OTHER Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/50 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN CABIN,COCKPIT,BAGGAGE COMPARTMENT 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 1672. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1672.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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