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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC73FNE12

1972-05-23 NEW MILFORD, Connecticut, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1361A

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING 767-31B

Year of manufacture

1995

Engine

GE CF6-80 SERIES

Seats / Engines

149 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20170730

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A093F7

Registrant of record

MSN 26265 LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1361A Piper PA-18 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-18 · N1361A

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

D

Airport

CANDLELIGHT FARMS

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000018-1187

Total time

2,000 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

38

Age

32

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

F ACFT.

Investigator remarks

ORIGIN OF FIRE NOT DTRMND DUE FIRE DESTRUCTION O

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/50 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN CABIN,COCKPIT,BAGGAGE COMPARTMENT 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 3436. Source file NTSB_1972_3_3436.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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