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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC75FGM12

1974-09-23 MONROEVILLE, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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

CESSNA 140 · N2770N

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

MONROEVILLE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

030° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000013028

Total time

3,238 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

391

Age

25

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LOSE ALT.AT 270 PSN,DTRMND UNABLE TO MAKE ARPT.

Investigator remarks

PLT EST ALT ABV GLIDE PATH,EXECUTED 360 TURN TO

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/28 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS
  • 64/B/48 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE
  • 83/K/Y K
    TERRAIN OTHER 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 3738. Source file NTSB_1974_3_3738.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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