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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC68F0302

1967-07-16 NEWBURYPORT, Massachusetts, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7639D Piper PA-22 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-22 · N7639D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

PLEASANT VIEW

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Total time

1,434 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

599

Age

43

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

WER THAN THE RECOMMENDED SETTING.

Investigator remarks

CARBURETOR FLOAT LEVEL HEIGHT WAS 4/32 INCHES LO

Cause factors

74/C/CG C
POWERPLANT CARBURETOR Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION 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 3959. Source file NTSB_1967_3_3959.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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