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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC71FNA46

1971-04-17 NORWOOD, Massachusetts, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

PIPER PA-23 · N5376Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

NORWOOD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000027-2449

Total time

2,261 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,766

Age

65

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PWR BOTH THROTTLES.ACFT LEFT THE RWY.

Investigator remarks

L ENG LOST PWR ON SHRT FNL,ACFT YAWED L,PLT ADD

Cause factors

  • 64/C/32 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
  • 88/C/96 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
  • 64/B/21 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS

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 1234. Source file NTSB_1971_3_1234.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.