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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC70FGM04

1970-01-17 JEANNETTE, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N600A

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-22

Year of manufacture

1955 · 15 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-290 SERIES (140 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7C73F

Registrant of record

MID ATLANTIC AIR MUSEUM

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N600A Piper PA-22 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

PIPER PA-22 · N600A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

BOQUET AIRPARK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

210° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000022-3

Total time

3,077 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,400

Age

44

Investigator remarks

SEAT SLID BACK ON T/O.

Cause factors

70/C/BI C
AIRFRAME SEATS Cause
88/C/29 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY SECURED Cause
64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING 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 0921. Source file NTSB_1970_3_0921.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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