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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72FNA18

1971-11-10 NORWOOD, Massachusetts, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5339S

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-140

Year of manufacture

1970 · 1 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19700925

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6BF36

Registrant of record

GYORKE GEORGE JR

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5339S Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N5339S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

NORWOOD

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

000028-26932

Total time

499 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

10,000

Age

33

Investigator remarks

AUTO HIT L WNG OF ACFT ON TAXIWY.

Cause factors

68/A/K5 A
PERSONNEL DRIVER OF VEHICLE 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 3 3973. Source file NTSB_1971_3_3973.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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