Skip to content

Atlas / NTSB / NYC70AN073

NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC70AN073

1970-01-18 TARENTUM, Pennsylvania, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

CHAMPION 402 · N9934Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

REMICH

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

340° / 14 kt

Temp

24° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000402-15

Total time

678 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,461

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NOT SHUT OFF.CROSSFEED,BOOST ON,AIR SUCKED IN SYS.

Investigator remarks

R FUEL SELECT VALUE INNER PART MISALIGNED,COULD

Cause factors

  • 88/C/96 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
  • 74/C/CC C
    POWERPLANT SELECTOR VALVES Cause
  • 88/C/48 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FAILURE OF TWO OR MORE ENGINES Cause
  • 83/B/I B
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS

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 4619. Source file NTSB_1970_3_4619.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

Browse the full corpus — academia portal ↗