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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC73FIA09

1973-01-17 SKY BRYCE, Virginia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N10PB

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-34-200T

Year of manufacture

1974

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-360 SER (225 hp)

Seats / Engines

7 seats · 2 engines

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A003A2

Registrant of record

NEVES FRANK JR

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

LOCKHEED L-12A · N10PB

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Business

Airport

SKY BRYCE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 4 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000020-313

Total time

1,490 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

18,272

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

L L TANK APRX 5GAL,R TANK ABT 9.FUEL SEL L TANK.

Investigator remarks

PILOT ATTEMPTED 180 DEGREE TURN BACK TO RNWY.FUE

Cause factors

  • 64/A/29 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/74 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRFRAME ICE 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 0027. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0027.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.