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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72AN002

1971-07-04 UTICA, New York, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3373P Piper PA-23 Fatal

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 · N3373P

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

D

Airport

RIVERSIDE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

72° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000023-1333

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

8,500

Age

48

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PLT BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL 0.20 PCT,PAX 0.26 PCT.

Investigator remarks

EVIDENCE THAT R ENG QUIT. NO MALFUNCTION FOUND.

Cause factors

64/C/65 C
PILOT IN COMMAND PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENT Cause
88/C/67 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ALCOHOLIC IMPAIRMENT OF EFFICIENCY AND JUDGMENT Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION 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 0919. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0919.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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