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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72FHA29

1972-01-07 PRINCETON, New Jersey, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N670B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

VAN'S AIRCRAFT RV-6A

Year of manufacture

2007

Engine

LYCOMING O-320-D2A (160 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20070606

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8DBD1

Registrant of record

BECK MARK A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N670B Beech A35 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

BEECH A35 · N670B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Airport

PRINCETON ARPT

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

35° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000D-1671

Total time

3,177 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

325

Age

30

Investigator remarks

PLT DRAINED SUMPS.SLID INTO DITCH.

Cause factors

74/C/CB C
POWERPLANT LINES AND FITTINGS Cause
88/C/CF C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OBSTRUCTED Cause
88/C/70 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ICE-IN FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/B/B B
TERRAIN SNOW-COVERED

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 1293. Source file NTSB_1972_3_1293.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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