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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC75FNA23

1974-10-24 BLOCK ISLAND, Rhode Island, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N37087

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

LUSCOMBE 8E

Year of manufacture

1941 · 33 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C90 SERIES (95 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19550829

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4375B

Registrant of record

WHITE PAUL M

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N37087 Luscombe 8F 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

LUSCOMBE 8F · N37087

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

OLD HARBOR

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001748

Total time

3,957 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

240

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SCONNECTED.

Investigator remarks

FLOAT EQPD.L REAR FLOAT BALL FITTING BENT AND DI

Cause factors

64/A/25 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/88 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint cause

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 3605. Source file NTSB_1974_3_3605.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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