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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC75FFJ05

1974-08-07 SYRACUSE, New York, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1116V Beech T-34 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 T-34 · N1116V

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

L

Airport

HANCOCK INTL

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

130° / 6 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000G-259

Total time

4,986 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

6,600

Age

47

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

UGE READING ONE QUARTER FULL.FUEL TANK EMPTY.

Investigator remarks

ON TAKEOFF FUEL STARVATION OCCURRED WITH FUEL GA

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/B/I B
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS
74/L/J2 L
POWERPLANT FUEL QUANTITY GAUGE
88/L/91 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS TOUCH AND GO LANDING

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 2779. Source file NTSB_1974_3_2779.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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