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Event NYC75DNA14

1974-08-25 BLOCK ISLAND, Rhode Island, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N16BW

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

WHITE ROBERT A MEYERS TOOT

Engine

LYCOMING 0-290 SERIES (140 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20020407

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0EF83

Registrant of record

SAUL ROBERT D III

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N16BW Beech B23 Minor

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

BEECH B23 · N16BW

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

BLOCK ISL STATE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

160° / 4 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000M1158

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

71

Age

47

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RESPOND.

Investigator remarks

ALLOWED ACFT TO GET TOO LOW,APLD PWR,ENG DID NOT

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/48 B
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE
64/B/25 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
64/3/21 3
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Subordinate · 3

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 3745. Source file NTSB_1974_3_3745.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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