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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72AN026

1971-08-18 NEWPORT, Rhode Island, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6367U AERO COMDR 500-B 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

AERO COMDR 500-B · N6367U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

E

Airport

NEWPORT STATE

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

00001424-150

Total time

2,834 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

5,400

Age

42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RAN OFF END OF RWY INTO ROUGH OVERRUN.

Investigator remarks

L PROP BLADE SEPARATED DUE FAILURE OF HUB CLAMP.

Cause factors

74/C/FI C
POWERPLANT BLADE RETENTION MECHANISM Cause
88/C/36 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause
88/C/CB C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY INSTALLED Cause
68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
88/L/55 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CORRODED/CORROSION
80/K/BY K
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER Joint factor
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 3264. Source file NTSB_1971_3_3264.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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