NYC70AN073
1970-01-18 · TARENTUM, Pennsylvania, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed
Aircraft involved
Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)
- 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).
Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket
3 4619.
Source file
NTSB_1970_3_4619.txt.
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