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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC74AN079

1974-03-26 PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N782R DEHAVILLAND DH114 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

DEHAVILLAND DH114 · N782R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000014-126

Total time

8,069 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

2,860

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

IT ABOVE HTR FUEL/AIR REGULATOR.

Investigator remarks

FIRE L WING LEADING EDGE COMPRT.ELECT SHRT CIRCU

Cause factors

74/A/CB A
POWERPLANT LINES AND FITTINGS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/AJ A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LEAK/LEAKAGE Cause — pilot/personnel action
75/A/AJ A
SYSTEMS RELAYS AND WIRING Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/BG A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CHAFED Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/DA A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN WING 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 0658. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0658.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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