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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC71FGM07

1970-08-03 BUTLER, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5788P Piper PA-24 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-24 · N5788P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

BUTLER FARM

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000024-867

Total time

863 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

786

Age

51

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OF FUEL EXHAUSTION NOT DETERMINED.

Investigator remarks

ACFT AIRBORNE APRX 3HRS.FUEL SYSTEM INTACT,CAUSE

Cause factors

88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
83/B/I B
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS

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 3051. Source file NTSB_1970_3_3051.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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