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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC75FNC21

1974-12-16 AUGUSTA, Maine, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8726P Piper PA-24 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

PIPER PA-24 · N8726P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Airport

AUGUSTA STATE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000024-4175

Total time

1,386 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,619

Age

32

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ISSED AS ROAD TURNED,STRUCK DITCH.DARK NIGHT.

Investigator remarks

ATTEMPTED FORCED LANDING ON INTERSTATE HIGHWAY,M

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/B/Y B
TERRAIN OTHER

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 4109. Source file NTSB_1974_3_4109.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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