NTSB CAROL · Event
Event NYC69D0454
Aircraft involved
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
PITT SPEC · N232WS
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED
Aircraft history
Total time
71 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
EA (EA)
Total hours
358
Age
26
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
NG COMPARTMENT,CAUSED VAPOR LOCK.
Investigator remarks
HOT EXHAUST GASES FROM FAILED STACK OVERHEATED E
Cause factors
- 74/C/G5 C POWERPLANT STACKS Cause
- 88/C/95 C MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
- 88/C/CI C MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERHEATED 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 1839.
Source file
NTSB_1969_3_1839.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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- arXiv 2026 · arXiv preprint
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- arXiv 2026 · arXiv preprint
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- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2026 · Journal article (IJAAA)
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- arXiv 2025 · arXiv preprint
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- arXiv 2025 · arXiv preprint
Pareto-Optimal Sampling and Resource Allocation for Timely Communication in Shared-Spectrum Low-Altitude Networks
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