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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC75FNE10

1974-09-08 EAST HADDAM, Connecticut, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N39797 Lake LA-4 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

LAKE LA-4 · N39797

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

CONNECTICUT RIVER

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000561

Total time

130 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

509

Age

51

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LTING PORPOISING DAMAGED NOSE SECTION AND RT FLOAT

Investigator remarks

STRUCK SUBMERGED OBJECT DURING TAKE-OFF RUN,RESU

Cause factors

83/A/E A
TERRAIN HIDDEN OBSTRUCTIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 2659. Source file NTSB_1974_3_2659.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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