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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72AN022

1971-08-08 WELLSBORO, Pennsylvania, United States Fatal 2 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8155A

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA T310R

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-520 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19980811

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB1EF7

Registrant of record

SKYLANE VENTURES LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

CESSNA 170B · N8155A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

AERO ACRES

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000025007

Total time

1,752 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

3,044

Age

51

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PX NOT STRAPPED IN,THROWN OUT ON IMPACT.

Investigator remarks

PLT SEAT NOT LOCKED BFR TKOF,SEAT SLID BACK.BOTH

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/12 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEAT BELT NOT FASTENED Joint 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 2971. Source file NTSB_1971_3_2971.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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