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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC74FHM29

1974-06-02 MONTGOMERY, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5SG

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AVIAT INC PITTS S-2B

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A636D5

Registrant of record

SKYLER AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5SG Bell 206B 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

BELL 206B · N5SG

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001026

Total time

168 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

620

Age

33

Investigator remarks

INSUFFICIENT FUEL REMAINING TO SUSTAIN FLT.

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
64/B/49 B
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED SPEED AND ALTITUDE

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 1523. Source file NTSB_1974_3_1523.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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