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Event NYC74DNA13

1973-09-01 GREENE, Rhode Island, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6987H

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER J3C-65

Year of manufacture

1942 · 31 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C90 SERIES (95 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19800703

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A94BC3

Registrant of record

BATTEY EDWARD L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6987H Piper J-3 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 J-3 · N6987H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

RICONN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

202° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000020232

Total time

1,311 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,800

Age

50

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LS.

Investigator remarks

SANDAL TYPE SHOE BECAME ENTANGLED IN RUDDER PEDA

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
88/C/77 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTERFERENCE WITH FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
88/L/91 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS TOUCH AND GO LANDING
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 2382. Source file NTSB_1973_3_2382.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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