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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC70AN089

1970-02-12 STERLING, Massachusetts, 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

CESSNA 182 · N3339Y

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

STERLING

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

300° / 25 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000182-54339

Total time

1,732 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

707

Age

51

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OR CABLE BINDING DUE TO BROKEN CARB TO CABLE CLIP.

Investigator remarks

HIT,DESTROYED PARKED ACFT.MIXTURE CONTROL ACTUAT

Cause factors

  • 74/C/CY C
    POWERPLANT OTHER Cause
  • 88/C/95 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
  • 88/C/BA C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS BINDING Cause
  • 88/C/96 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
  • 64/B/16 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED

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 0445. Source file NTSB_1970_3_0445.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.

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