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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC75DNC33

1975-05-22 MIDDLEBURY, Vermont, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8601L Piper PA-25 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 PA-25 · N8601L

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

MIDDLEBURY STATE

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000025-5024

Total time

1,486 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,400

Age

33

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AGL ENCTRD VIOLENT R ROLL WITH NOSE DWN PITCH.

Investigator remarks

TKOF ABT 3000 FT BEHIND LEAD ACFT AT APRX 100FT

Cause factors

64/C/20 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause
64/C/51 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED SPEED AND CLEARANCE Cause
88/L/24 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS JETTISONED LOAD
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 1225. Source file NTSB_1975_3_1225.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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