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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72FIA09

1971-12-12 LAPLATA, Maryland, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1001L

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

YAKOVLEV YAK-55M

Year of manufacture

1996

Engine

VEDENEYEV M14P (350 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20110707

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0073A

Registrant of record

SLOW ROLL AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1001L Lake LA-4A 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

LAKE LA-4A · N1001L

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

G

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000244

Total time

647 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,080

Age

36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

T AGL. REASON UNDETERMINED.

Investigator remarks

OBS SAW ACFT IMPACT FROM SUDDEN DIVE ABOUT 200 F

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS 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 4100. Source file NTSB_1971_3_4100.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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