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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC75FHD26

1974-11-24 OCEAN CITY, New Jersey, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1MV Piper PA-23 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

PIPER PA-23 · N1MV

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

OCEAN CITY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

200° / 18 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000023-67

Total time

4,045 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

4,993

Age

55

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

.

Investigator remarks

UN MNTN SINGLE ENG CLIMB,LNDD WHEELS UP ON BEACH

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
88/B/DG B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL WHEELS-UP
83/K/K K
TERRAIN SANDY 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 3996. Source file NTSB_1974_3_3996.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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