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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC76AN078

1976-02-12 LUDLOW, Massachusetts, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7RW

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182A

Year of manufacture

1956 · 20 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19561229

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A95168

Registrant of record

NELSON JEFFREY S

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7RW Piper PA-23 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-23 · N7RW

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

WESTOVER AFB

Kind of flying

DQ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

260° / 6 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00027-33-250

Total time

3,472 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

15,374

Age

61

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TREES TOWARD AN OPEN CLEARING IN CITY AREA.

Investigator remarks

STRUCK WIRES WHILE MANEUVERING ACFT OVR LINE OF

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
88/C/48 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FAILURE OF TWO OR MORE ENGINES Cause
83/B/E B
TERRAIN HIDDEN OBSTRUCTIONS

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 1384. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1384.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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