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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC74DGM05

1973-09-10 INDIANA, Pennsylvania, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9777

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

LAKE LA-4-200

Year of manufacture

1971 · 2 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING IO-360-A1B (200 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20140211

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ADA0F3

Registrant of record

VALIAIR LIMITED CO TRUSTEE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9777 JEANIES TEENIE Serious

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

JEANIES TEENIE · N9777

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

JIMMY STEWART

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000001

Total time

29 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

830

Age

57

Investigator remarks

TOUCHED DOWN ON NOSE LANDING GEAR.

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
64/C/23 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
82/L/K L
WEATHER TURBULENCE IN FLIGHT,CLEAR AIR

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 2657. Source file NTSB_1973_3_2657.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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