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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC71FHA13

1970-08-30 FOUNTAINVILLE, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N10322

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH T-34B

Year of manufacture

1957 · 13 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19920123

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A01292

Registrant of record

SKYVIEW RESOURCES LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N10322 HILLER ACFT UH-12A 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

HILLER ACFT UH-12A · N10322

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000256

Total time

538 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

583

Age

27

Investigator remarks

PLT MADE FULL AUTO INTO CORN FIELD.

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
64/B/49 B
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED SPEED AND ALTITUDE
83/B/Y B
TERRAIN OTHER

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 4586. Source file NTSB_1970_3_4586.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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