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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC75FNC17

1974-10-29 AUGUSTA, Maine, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9704Q Beech A24R Serious

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 A24R · N9704Q

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

AUGUSTA STATE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000MC-60

Total time

1,026 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

18,000

Age

58

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

BULGED INTO FUEL INTAKE CHANNEL CAUSING DISRUPTION

Investigator remarks

GASKET ON BOTTOM OF FUEL FLOW DIVIDER PN12407.4

Cause factors

74/C/CI C
POWERPLANT FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN

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 3882. Source file NTSB_1974_3_3882.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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