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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC69F0319

1969-02-04 SUSSEX, New Jersey, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7617Y Piper PA-30 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-30 · N7617Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

SUSSEX

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

300° / 40 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

1,312 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

354

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LDG,NO TIME FOR EMERG ACTION AFT UNSAFE GR INDCN.

Investigator remarks

FUEL FLOW PRES GAUGE LINE FAILED.UNABLE TO ABORT

Cause factors

88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
74/C/CB C
POWERPLANT LINES AND FITTINGS Cause
70/B/CB B
AIRFRAME NORMAL RETRACTION/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY
88/B/AL B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CIRCUIT BREAKER POPPED

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 0224. Source file NTSB_1969_3_0224.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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