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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC76FHJ18

1976-04-30 EAST MORICHES, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N94132 ERCO 415-C 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

ERCO 415-C · N94132

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

SPADARO

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

215° / 20 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001455

Total time

1,616 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

205

Age

23

Investigator remarks

NO VENT HOLES IN FUEL TANK CAPS.

Cause factors

68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
74/C/CJ C
POWERPLANT VENTS,DRAINS,TANK CAPS Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
64/B/25 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 1665. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1665.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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