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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC75FFA22

1974-11-30 COOPERSTOWN, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

DAVISSON H K BUDD HOWARD DGA-3

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A18F77

Registrant of record

HUMHREY CHARLES R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2Y Piper PA-23 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-23 · N2Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

COOPERSTOWN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000023-1722

Total time

4,504 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

7,208

Age

52

Investigator remarks

POST ACDT EXAM GR CKD OK.

Cause factors

64/A/10 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO EXTEND LANDING GEAR Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 4119. Source file NTSB_1974_3_4119.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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