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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72AN108

1972-03-05 ISLIP, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N814M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-180

Year of manufacture

1966 · 6 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB194B

Registrant of record

STEUK PATRICIA A TRUSTEE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N814M Fairchild FH-227 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

FAIRCHILD FH-227 · N814M

Damage

None

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

Z

Phase of flight

A1

Airport

MACARTHUR ARPT

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

12,500

Age

39

Investigator remarks

HIT BY R PROP RUNNING DOWN.DARK,OVRCAST NIGHT.

Cause factors

68/A/K3 A
PERSONNEL GROUND CREWMAN Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 1 0009. Source file NTSB_1972_1_0009.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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