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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DIA69F0009

1969-06-19 JACKSONVILLE, North Carolina, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N73583

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING B75N1

Year of manufacture

1943 · 26 years old at event

Engine

P&W R-985 SERIES (450 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19801002

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A9E12A

Registrant of record

GARBER BRUCE E TRUSTEE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N73583 Stearman B75N1 Serious

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

STEARMAN B75N1 · N73583

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

D

Airport

PINEY GREEN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

3,380 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

3,604

Age

34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SECTS.

Investigator remarks

FUEL TANK VENT LINE OBSTRUCTED BY DIRT DAUBER IN

Cause factors

74/C/CJ C
POWERPLANT VENTS,DRAINS,TANK CAPS Cause
84/C/G C
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION 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 2036. Source file NTSB_1969_3_2036.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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