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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC73AN135

1973-04-21 WARWICK, New York, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2324B Globe GC-1B 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

GLOBE GC-1B · N2324B

Damage

None

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

WARWICK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000003624

Total time

943 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

500

Age

47

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

.PLT AND PAX DROWNED.

Investigator remarks

2ND TKOF.RAN OFF RWY INTO LAKE.TANKS FOUND EMPTY

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
88/K/88 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER 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 0678. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0678.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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