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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD75FID15

1975-03-09 GLOUCESTER, Virginia, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N71T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

EXPRESS ACFT CO LLC SERIES 2000

Year of manufacture

2004

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-550 SERIES (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20040904

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A97B5D

Registrant of record

FAWCETT ANDREW R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N71T Taylorcraft BC1265 Minor

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

TAYLORCRAFT BC1265 · N71T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

GLOUCESTER

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

320° / 13 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002168

Total time

2,222 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

51

Age

26

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TS TO 23K.

Investigator remarks

ENCTRD DWNDRAFT,APLD PWR,ENG DID NOT RESPOND.GUS

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/B/I B
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS
82/L/M L
WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS
64/3/21 3
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Subordinate · 3

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 0461. Source file NTSB_1975_3_0461.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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