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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD71DHD31

1970-11-22 SMYRNA, Delaware, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N28196 Piper J5A 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 J5A · N28196

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B2

Operator type

D

Airport

EWING

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000005-138

Total time

1,650 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

197

Age

22

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PAX INADVERTENTLY HIT THROTTLE,WASNT BRIEFED BFOR.

Investigator remarks

PLT PROPPED ENG. ACFT NOT CHOCKED OR TIED DOWN.

Cause factors

64/A/37 A
PILOT IN COMMAND STARTED ENGINE WITHOUT PROPER ASSISTANCE/EQUIPMENT 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 4241. Source file NTSB_1970_3_4241.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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