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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC70D0222

1969-12-07 NEW SALEM, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N29756

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

TAYLORCRAFT BF12-65

Year of manufacture

1941 · 28 years old at event

Engine

FRANKLIN 4AC176B SER (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560714

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A312A1

Registrant of record

GILLIAM SPENCER R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N29756 Taylorcraft BC-12 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

TAYLORCRAFT BC-12 · N29756

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

NEW SALEM

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

050° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000100730

Total time

1,555 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

315

Age

47

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FLOW OF FUEL.

Investigator remarks

ICE CLOGGED FUEL LINE,GASCOLATOR AND RESTRICTED

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
88/C/70 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ICE-IN FUEL 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 4636. Source file NTSB_1969_3_4636.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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