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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC73DNG75

1973-06-04 FORT KENT, Maine, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7014C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH F33A

Year of manufacture

1979

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19890112

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A95B2C

Registrant of record

ACT AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7014C Grumman TBM-3E 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

GRUMMAN TBM-3E · N7014C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DK

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

220° / 3 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000085836

Total time

3,187 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

5,205

Age

50

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ON FLIGHT.

Investigator remarks

INSIDE ACFT OF 3 ACFT WINGTIP-TO-WINGTIP FORMATI

Cause factors

64/A/54 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/J/H J
TERRAIN GLASSY WATER Joint cause
88/J/88 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint 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 1341. Source file NTSB_1973_3_1341.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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