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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC70F0087

1969-07-24 EXETER, Pennsylvania, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N315JP

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER AEROSTAR 600

Year of manufacture

1979

Engine

LYCOMING IO-540 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19790216

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A35A3A

Registrant of record

GLASGOW JAMES

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

MUSTANG II · N315JP

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

WYOMING VALLEY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000002

Total time

2 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

172

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FLOATS BROKE OFF FLOAT ARM.

Investigator remarks

EVALUATION FLT.IMPROPER CARB FLOAT LVL ADJ.BOTH

Cause factors

  • 68/C/D9 C
    PERSONNEL UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED Cause
  • 74/C/CG C
    POWERPLANT CARBURETOR Cause
  • 88/C/47 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER ALIGNMENT/ADJUSTMENT Cause
  • 88/C/95 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
  • 64/B/31 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT
  • 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 2548. Source file NTSB_1969_3_2548.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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