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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC70F0231

1969-11-22 MATTITUCK, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2361Q

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-161

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19770303

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A22154

Registrant of record

LONG LAWRENCE R

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

BEECH 23 · N2361Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

280° / 5 kt

Temp

31° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000M-438

Total time

2,208 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

160

Age

25

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PRESSURE ON FUEL PUMP DIAPHRAGM.HIGH FUEL PRESSURE

Investigator remarks

CRANKCASE VENT LINE CLOGGED BY DIRT AND RUBBER.

Cause factors

  • 74/C/AA C
    POWERPLANT CRANKCASE Cause
  • 88/C/CF C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OBSTRUCTED Cause
  • 84/C/G C
    MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS Cause
  • 74/C/CH C
    POWERPLANT PUMPS Cause
  • 88/C/CK C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS EXCESSIVE PRESSURE Cause
  • 88/C/34 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ENGINE LOADED UP Cause
  • 83/B/F B
    TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 4557. Source file NTSB_1969_3_4557.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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